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Originally Posted by fotze2
I’ve never understood why we always have to “grow”. In everything. Companies, shareholders/cities/stocks. Why can’t we just maintain? My buds bro is the head lawyer at Zeiss. A family owned massive company and they aren’t beholden to growth. Just maintain and able to do world class research that makes everyone better.
Other than cooler cuisine in Calgary, I cannot think of anything in Calgary that hasn’t gotten significantly worse due to growth. Taxes and cost of living should go down due to economies of scale? Fata no. They are putting up that mini city at viscount bennet a few blocks away and we are getting the house ready to sell. Traffic is going to be a nightmare.
How about people stop humping their brains out reproducing their crappy genes.
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Are you willing to significantly increase taxation to pay for your old age? Are you willing to have a much flatter stock market as the population growth won’t underpin a portion of the growth?
If you can live with the consequences of a demographic square instead of a pyramid then growth could be eliminated.
It radically changes many things so likely takes a 100 years to implement.
I’d like to understand the real consequences of moving to end growth. For Canada it would be relatively simple as growth is just controlled by immigration rate as people have less than replacement levels of children.