Quotes from The Growth Illusion by Richard Douthwaite
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Chapter Ned Ludd was Right
I start this quote after a metaphor in which he used an imaginary country
called Erewhon to illustrate his statement, "One of the distortions was
that new technologies made people redundant without the
The Growth Illusion by Douthwaite
Quote from Chapter 9
What Has All the Growth Done
Page 168
I just love this little anecdote that follows, which, vast reader that I
am, had never heard of before. Imagine learning it from a book by an Irish
professor over 25 years after the events described
ring about. They must state why they
think the outcomes they intend are desirable and fair.
Thomas Lunde replies:
The only way I think this would ever come about is through a device such as
was advertised several years ago that claimed to be able to tell when
someone was lying by an analys
Magic word, overcapacity, read instead the shift of income from labour to
investment income over the last 20 or so years has literally taken money
out of the consumer market where it could buy goods and services and
circulate - this lack of money in the consumer market has been compensated
for
I was responding to a friend on the West Coast who has been a bus driver
for BC Transit for the last 25 years and who E Mailed me about his car
troubles. (soon to be a thing of the past) I started to answer and this
little tale rolled out of my humerous side. I share it with you in the
spirit
Will My Daughters Be Serfs?
I have just spent a couple of hours reading Fossilgate which was on the
FutureWork List. It was about as exciting as a trip through Dante's
Inferno on your deathbed, in fact it could be an industrialized version of
the future for consumers rather than souls.
The
This was an essay I developed in response to Ed Mueller's comments on land
reform before we closed the Colorado address. I do not think it made it
onto FW list and I hope this isn't a duplicate posting, but I put a lot of
work in it and developed some viewpoints so here goes again.
Thomas
The Growth Illusion by Douthwaite
Quote from Chapter 9
What Has All the Growth Done
Page 168
I just love this little anecdote that follows, which, vast reader that I
am, had never heard of before. Imagine learning it from a book by an Irish
professor over 25 years after the events described
This may be a double posting as I sent this out last week but have not seen
it posted - perhaps in our changing to Waterloo it got lost or I don't know
how to find it in the new system - anyway - here it is again
This is in response to Mr. Mueller's comments on land reform as a potential
The more I read and study this problem of unemployment, the more I am led
to the conclusion that the "root" causes lay within our capitalistic system
of distributing goods and services which are produced by human beings in
activities that we selectively label "employment". Many of the other
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