“There’s this wild disconnect between what people are experiencing and what economists are experiencing,” says Nikki Cimino, a recruiter in Denver.

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    6 months ago

    It’s as if workers can only improve their condition in a capitalist society when the pie grows exponentially, but continual exponential growth is an impossibility in a physical world.

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      6 months ago

      It doesn’t need to grow exponentially, just faster than the population.

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      6 months ago

      Do you even know what exponential growth means? Because if you feel qualified to criticize capitalism you should know.