Duane Bozarth writes:

[...]

Well, I don't think there's any significant difference in US policy
and other Western economies other than style. And certainly the

True.

Chinese, Indians, Brazilians, etc., are going to overarch anything we're
doing now in the very near term. Not to even mention the past abuses in
former Iron Curtain industrial areas...

This is why in order to change economic workings its first necessary
to undo the connection of wellbeing and economic growth in our minds.
Also the american way of life is sill presented as the way to go and
therefore influences all the world.

[...]

What is your realistic and achievable solution to raising economic
status of those on the lower rungs in both the developed countries as
well as the rest of the world other than growth? Wishing for the
"haves" to slide back is both unrealistic and counter-productive.

None. This is why I don't have children and why I also do not really
engage in political action: I think it's futile, we will be
assimilated.
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