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		malchow on Feb 27, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: After rising for 100 years, electricity demand is ... "in capitalism that you always need to have growth" More like: "people want growth" so "there is growth" so "capitalism is the only economic system not at odds with reality."

bbctol on Feb 27, 2018 [–]

There's a difference between what people want and the whole of "reality"; in a real universe, growth will never be limitless, no matter how much people want it to be.

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