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>>Simon_+(OP)
The whole world is going this way: Japan is just an early adopter. It’ll be good for the planet to have fewer people: our challenge is to run a flourishing society that isn’t based on continual growth.

>>michae+p6
We can still have growth but the growth that matters most, growth per capita. Fewer people but who can be better off individually than we are now.

>>mytail+W6
Growth per capita has some headroom worldwide, but in developed economies is progressively harder to find. Getting to a stable state that requires no growth except managing inevitable fluctuations would be best.

We need a game-theoretic model of what such an economy would look like and some levers to arrive at it.

>>quanti+59
One thing in developed countries is that instead on focusing on increasing productivity we're importing cheap labour through immigration.

>>mytail+bf
And automation is still seen as a bad thing by most laypeople