Joe Tainter: “Surplus, Complexity, and Simplification”
The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens
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I Don't See a Stable State Economy.
I just wonder biologically, are we capable of something kind of flat? What do you think about that? Well, consider what some of the consequences would be. For one thing, birth rates have to equal death rates. How many of us are willing to put up with that? It also means that for someone to ascend the economic ladder, someone else has to go down by the same amount. This is what steady state means. I mean, these are two of the main reasons why I just don't see a steady state economy as politically feasible.
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