@bombadillo @outi @gerrymcgovern 1. The last statement is simply incorrect. There is a possibility that highly uneven societies like our global one could increase in population without producing more, by just becoming more efficient and distributing more evenly. I bet that yeah, 1800-today, you had to increase production to not lose wellbeing per person. But that's not the whole picture, and certainly doesn't justify anything capitalism has done