Joe Tainter: “Surplus, Complexity, and Simplification”
The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens
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What Are You Most Concerned About in the Coming Decade or So?
I am concerned about how changes in our material standard of living, the possibility of a steady state economy, declining innovation, declining energy per capita. That's my immediate and short term concern for the long term. Say going into the next century, your great simplification could be correct. I just don't know. And in contrast, what are you most hopeful about in the coming decade or so? Well, I am hopeful that people become aware that the population becomes educated and more intelligent than it is now. So if you were benevolent dictator and there was no personal recourse to your decision, what one thing would you do to improve human and planetary futures? And would it be the changing in our
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