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Expansion of public services would be good, although I would like to reverse inequality directly first. But we can't just expand because of the physical constraints (and even from the fact that there is only so much we can meaningfully consume) -so we'll have to restrict individual production to maintain full employment. Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed. Gandhi
-There may not be quite as many such services not consuming any material resources as we'd like -Especially not as many services for which there really would be a demand -We don't just need to stagnate but to go back on resource use -and to go back a lot. So expansion of services, which I would very much welcome (more teachers, for instance, and not just at school but even for adults), will not be enough. Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed. Gandhi
My point about a need for solutions to avoid deflation was for the period after that, which is not anytime soon. I wanted to deflect any argument that stagnation was totally incompatible with full employment and avoiding deflation. Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed. Gandhi
The business people that I knew there worked for one of the largest chemical firms in the world. I heard that the boss of our division made about 4 times the salaries of the office people. Nobody seemed to begrudge it, even after an evening of sake.
If that's stagnation in action, it looked good to me.
Slight change of subject in line with afew's and others' comments: I read a Reuters' article yesterday about the 'failure' of the current solar-energy initiative in Japan. It was one of the most egregiously stupid articles that I have ever read. Because they have only installed 3+ GW of solar in one year out of 20+ GW projected over the life of the policy, the initiative is a shambles. One other thing that I love about the Japanese - they don't spike the ball in the endzone (maybe occasionally run around the pitch a bit after scoring). They just listen, drink their sake with friends, and move on to the next problem. paul spencer
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