So here is a wild idea: do one tiny thing that is bad for the economy. See what cascades. For example: ban all drink containers in Holland.
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Want juice in Delft? Grow orange trees. No more beer cans in Gouda? Go down to local brewery, meet your neighbors. School milk? Keep cows.
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It is a wild idea. China had a wild idea once about family planning that might just have saved the planet, very not "good for the economy."
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Replying to @wrathofgnon
China also had economic ideas similar to those above. Didn't work out so well. There's probably a happy medium.pic.twitter.com/Aloke2SSlV
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Well, using backyard furnaces to create steel on a large scale is a terrible idea. Almost anything large scale is a terrible idea.
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As a counterpoint, see the Bateman letter here. http://thehackensack.blogspot.com/2008/12/questioning-conventional-wisdom-about.html …
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Not really a counterpoint, microfinancing works for a small minority, probably the ones they tested the idea on.
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A counterpoint in the sense that Japan and South Korea got rich with big companies making stuff at scale.
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But that "rich" came with a terrible price. At best, a faustian deal. At worst, a betrayal of epic proportions.
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Replying to @wrathofgnon
You're in Japan, not me, so maybe you see a downside I don't. But it seems to trounce nearly all others on quality of life.
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We must return to sacred trad values like high child mortality and weak national defense, David
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