#272: “Peak almost everything”, part two (surplusenergyeconomics.wordpress.com)

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[-] eleitl@lemmy.ml 4 points 7 months ago

If you use 3 units of debt and rising to produce 1 unit of "growth" which is measured in a highly gamed metric, is it really the same kind of growth as we had in 1950?

And in what units do you measure your productivity? Prostitution, black economy and owning your house without renting it out are also part of the GDP.

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