Your original response was responding to someone saying infinite growth isn’t possible. You were stating it’s 100% supposed to be infinite. I was saying that it’s neither tied to actual resources (not GDP) nor is it 100% necessary. It’s inherently forced and “number go up” is not necessarily good economic policy - which is pretty obvious to see given the state of the world as GDP and the stock markets are increasingly detached from the majority of human metrics and therefore reality.
So I think it’s very relevant to your original comment, especially when considering we’re talking about economic policy on a website that doesn’t assume a massive degree of financial literacy because saying things here out of context become truths to people who don’t know better. This propagates a poor understanding of how our financial system works imo so accuracy is hopefully appreciated.
Your original response was responding to someone saying infinite growth isn’t possible. You were stating it’s 100% supposed to be infinite. I was saying that it’s neither tied to actual resources (not GDP) nor is it 100% necessary. It’s inherently forced and “number go up” is not necessarily good economic policy - which is pretty obvious to see given the state of the world as GDP and the stock markets are increasingly detached from the majority of human metrics and therefore reality.
So I think it’s very relevant to your original comment, especially when considering we’re talking about economic policy on a website that doesn’t assume a massive degree of financial literacy because saying things here out of context become truths to people who don’t know better. This propagates a poor understanding of how our financial system works imo so accuracy is hopefully appreciated.