Infinite Growth Isn't an Illusion

The idea of infinite growth is already an illusion in the sense that it's lying to you as though you're going to outlive your own life some way through economic contributions. What's going to happen is you can make a contribution to the economy and through your offspring perhaps, bequeathed something to them. But it's really not all about that. In Latin, the word oteum means leisure. And the word negotium means business. So business is defined as not leisure. We lose the fact that our goal here is to work for the sake of leisure. It's not to work every single day for the rest of our lives. There's a time for work and