july

@Naval on degrowth (1/2)

“Nobody actually engages in degrowth in their actual everyday life.

Nobody lowers their standard of living. Nobody wants to be less fit.
Nobody wants to be less healthy. Nobody wants to be less knowledgeable. 
Nobody wants less of anything.

So, the idea that society as a whole is going to go through degrowth is just, it's just suicide of a sort. Now, these bad ideas, they basically get tax on the good ideas. But any society that degrowth itself will simply get outcompeted by the societies that don't degrowth themselves.

Sapiens qui prospicit - Wannabe Polymath. Interested in art, music, history, philosophy and religion.

(2/2)

And there are plenty of societies that are not going to degrowth themselves. You can go to rural India or rural China or anywhere in that part of the world to see what degrowth society is. It's the pre-growth society, it's the same thing.

It's high infant mortality, it's malnutrition, it's lack of access to health care. And again, it's the fundamental mistake of saying, oh, we're done, we've figured everything out and we're going to stop here, and now we're just going to divide up the loot. Complete nonsense.”

From Arjun Khemani Podcast: Naval Ravikant: The Beginning of Infinity, 18. Dez. 2024