Good lecture. His point about our attitude to The Economy - the god that must always be appeased, as opposed to an organism and a set of measurements that we created, that is part of our society and that we exchange input and output with - in effect, that we can have a dialogue with rather than merely serving - is so vital, and needs to be said loud and often.
@pjm45
6 жыл бұрын
A fascinating lecture, thank you. Perhaps the key point lies in your answer to the first question, where you made the point that growth in itself isn't what's important, but rather where that growth is leading us to. Growth for growth's sake, where polluting processes contribute to GDP, but cleaning up that pollution is also added, or where, as in the UK, the production and sale of armaments is a key component of GDP, are perhaps not the places we would want to visit, if we could set the targets before we measured and lauded growth.
@danielwebb8402
6 жыл бұрын
So we'd all rather be in 1965? Ask people how happy they'd be with just 4 tv channels. That would materially make my life less fulfilled. So the answer is we quickly take things for granted / re-set our expectations. There is the famous story of an employer giving out turkeys to his employees. First year all the families were delighted at the genirosity and so thankful. At the 3rd there were complaints that the turkeys weren't as big as the year before
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