Economic growth

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Japan had half a million attempted suicides last year: where do you see "developed"--as a good thing--in their country, economy and culture to discuss? Not that any other country, culture or religion has any different.

You likely see "economic growth" as a good thing, too. Economy: Someone, in the beginning, took [control of] basic common resources (food) and demanded something in return/trade. (Animal Farm)

Paper work, and added work to extravagantly feed, clothe and shelter some, is self-defeating to all.

Polluting our living environment to death when we are dependent on it is your version of catastrophic economic failure (for increasingly more countries as more powerful countries siphon off all their resources to defer their own economic woes); unless something new happens along, we're all of us scr....

The USA will get lots of immediate nonrenewable energy to spend (money for oil not given to middle east and S.A. is money kept in-country; and their economic ruin that is already happening). Relax and ignore environmental concern, but the devastation to land and water will be undeniable. Borrow from the future and bad things happen when the bills come due: esp when the environment has the power of eq's, hurricanes, tsunamis, derichos.

>>1704710
>hurr economic growth is bad for humans and the environment!

found the commie socialist

>>1704474
You'll find economic growth and 1st world development tied to countries following some rendition of protectionism and having industrial policy. Resources can be imported and turned into something of more value through your thriving domestic industry.

>>1704710
>Japan had half a million attempted suicides last year
japan already committed harakiri when they tired to stop their deflation, now us followed them on this path.

>>1704474
>Or just in general what causes economic growth?
Predictability.

The US is predictably an opportune place due to its ever expanding population and vast, empty, resource-filled spaces, and Japan is a highly ordered society.

Italy is cramped and has ambiguous and irregularly enforced laws. Japan is cramped too (big mountains, few plains,) so that's no excuse.

There's a sort of overcompensation in Italy. Tyrranical bureaucracy (e.g. no public wifi allowed because terrorism) combined with corruption and incompetence. It's a beautiful place, but the people are just erratic.

>>1704986
Japan's decline might be because they are addicted to predictability, and have far higher standards of predictability than the rest of the world. No entrepreneurship, no room left for vast corporations to expand; even the NEETs are too afraid to take silicon-valley style risks.

It's more accurate to say that a FEELING of predictability drives economic activity.

Hoarders and preppers don't contribute because they are terrified of the future.

The over-sensitive Japanese are declining because they expect more predictability than modern capitalism can offer them.

The Italians, meanwhile, are too cynical about fellow Italians and life in general; leads to a milder version of the hoarder's state of mind.

>>1704710
500k out of a population of 140 million? That's nothing.. 0.03% of the population