Path: ...!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: The joy of actual numbers, was Democracy Date: 29 Oct 2024 20:00:05 GMT Lines: 9 Message-ID: References: <2ItTO.338744$v8v2.95701@fx18.iad> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net tkEEWRagWi7kmqdHUFkliAr5IJrmT9EsUwPOpVH5QjkZSgO151 Cancel-Lock: sha1:u07pwHXC+nuRepLFe/k42PZeW4s= sha256:/ji3bnYrbKejziLzF67AzkTk7mB8KcQLxtcWFVyDPFs= User-Agent: Pan/0.149 (Bellevue; 4c157ba) Bytes: 1334 On Tue, 29 Oct 2024 18:35:18 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote: > Thanks for the link. I've believed for some time that we need to > transition to a steady-state economy; I'm glad to see that there are > others who agree. Capitalism shares some attributes with cancer. I have no idea how it could be toned down or replaced though. Schumacher's 'Small Is Beautiful' was interesting but had no effect.