> A reasonable question, and one not terribly often asked, is "What is the point of the economy, growth, etc?"
This is asked all the time. Google "economy growth reddit" and you'll see a bunch of posts questioning why it's important.
> I deal with it regularly, since my office is a standalone, off grid power system. I just use less energy, by an order of magnitude or so, in the winter - and I bundle up out here.
I mean, yes, on margin for a single person, this reduces overall energy consumption. However, cities are more energy-efficient per capita.
Take a look at the energy expenditure per-capita states by state, and you'll see that the states with the smallest energy expenditure per-capita generally have the largest cities, and the ones with the most energy expenditure are rural states:
https://www.eia.gov/state/seds/data.php?incfile=/state/seds/....
> This is asked all the time. Google "economy growth reddit" and you'll see a bunch of posts questioning why it's important.
This is a pretty awful way of looking anything up to be honest. Reddit is just a big echo chamber that will mindlessly parrot anything that is the common consensus for the particular subreddit.
I mean, I agree it's a pretty awful way of reaching the truth or mass consensus, but in terms of gauging how much interest a certain subject has in absolute terms, I think it's a good gauge.
What I'm trying to get at is that the original commenter is implying that people rarely question the value of economic growth, but if you google search the term "economic growth" generically, with no prompt on questioning its value, on a popular forum site, you'll see that one of the top questions is questioning its value.
This is asked all the time. Google "economy growth reddit" and you'll see a bunch of posts questioning why it's important.
> I deal with it regularly, since my office is a standalone, off grid power system. I just use less energy, by an order of magnitude or so, in the winter - and I bundle up out here.
I mean, yes, on margin for a single person, this reduces overall energy consumption. However, cities are more energy-efficient per capita.
Take a look at the energy expenditure per-capita states by state, and you'll see that the states with the smallest energy expenditure per-capita generally have the largest cities, and the ones with the most energy expenditure are rural states: https://www.eia.gov/state/seds/data.php?incfile=/state/seds/....