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<\/a>\nshowing US & Global GDP having continued to grow as before.\u00a0<\/address>\n
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To understand the root cause you need to\u00a0think about it as a symptom, a symptom of how the\u00a0global\u00a0economic system is behaving. \u00a0 The key piece of information is that “What is happening, is happening for the world economy as a whole”. \u00a0 \u00a0 Around ~1970 what happened to the US economy, as the bellwether for\u00a0the world, \u00a0is that the wealth of the wealthy kept growing exponentially, more or less just as before.\u00a0 \u00a0Nothing else did.<\/p>\n
The shape of the Data explains the operation of the system<\/h4>\n
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Very\u00a0little simplification is needed to say why this\u00a0happened.<\/p>\n
What connects all the parts is that the economy started to run into increasing complications
\nnot of things running out, but of things\u00a0of all kinds\u00a0running up in cost.<\/h4>\n
Much of our economic news over the past decades has been about the struggle to keep up with the rising costs and complications of everything, and the evidence is that has become a gradual form of stiff natural limit. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0The real key to understanding the pattern is recognizing why rising\u00a0costs would be\u00a0faced by\u00a0every part of the economy at once.<\/p>\n
It’s that\u00a0an economy works as a whole, all parts seeking least cost ways of doing everything,
\nand more expensive ways are not used unless there’s no alternative<\/h4>\n
The puzzle, still, is why the\u00a0incomes of the wealthy would have grown exponentially\u00a0in the first place, and then evidently be able to keep growing the same way as before, as the whole economy confronts increasing difficulties. \u00a0That is the specific cause of the growing inequity.<\/p>\n
It’s hard to find a simple explanation, but it’s as if the wealthy are able to require profits as before, from economies that are not producing them as before. \u00a0 \u00a0The evidence seems to be that the long standard practice of the wealthy, of earning from investments and always adding their profits to their invested assets, to make their assets and incomes grow exponentially, continues\u00a0uninterrupted. \u00a0 As the economy struggles\u00a0ever harder against the complications of\u00a0natural limits, the ability of the wealthy to demand and accumulate profits as before, gives them a decidedly unfair advantage.<\/p>\n
If it could continue there would eventually be a point where the economy completely splits apart, as in the figure below. \u00a0 Unable to divert ever faster increasing wealth for the wealthy the economy would eventually stabilize in two tiers, rich and poor. \u00a0\u00a0That’s the real problem with any plan for limitless growth in a finite world. \u00a0 \u00a0It results in tearing any society apart in the end. \u00a0 \u00a0 The concept of limitless growth with ever\u00a0growing profits works fine by itself, of course, it’s just that a system\u00a0managed to solve ever\u00a0more complex problems,\u00a0with the complications\u00a0not taken into account ,will\u00a0suffer and breaks down.<\/p>\n
The Natural Pattern<\/h4>\n
The cause of the\u00a0pattern is continually increasing competition in a finite world, creating\u00a0winners and losers to the point where everyone becomes the loser in the end.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Research notes on what seem to the three main factors<\/p>\n A draft introduction to a new scientific method for\u00a0on recognizing and understanding systemic behavior patterns like these, so people trying to\u00a0implement of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDG’s) can recognize the shifting economic\/cultural\/environmental forces they are dealing with.<\/p>\n 4. \u00a0A new \u201cNatural Systems\u201d approach to recognizing systemic behaviors JLH Oct 2014<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It helps to look at the long term trends to recognize the long term pattern. In a world of ever\u00a0increasing inequities we\u00a0clearly can’t sustain a real \u201crights agenda\u201d. \u00a0 \u00a0Even the strongest of moral commitments is no match for a world economy which\u00a0in a lasting physical way, is systematically splitting apart. Sometimes\u00a0local inequities can seem … Continue reading What is a “rights” agenda, with ever increasing inequity?<\/span> <\/a>\n
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