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What if people are contempt? What if the found out that games, bread and netflix, are enough to be happy. That all you need in addition is the company of other people and not a festival of useless consumption? What if today is the new maximum?

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Then the economy will grow by providing more and better games, bread, and Netflix. You cannot stop economic growth (except violently) as long as you don't put a stop to humans learning stuff.

There are plenty of countries that had no or low growth without any violence.

Also if the economy can grow by providing more and better games, bread, and Netflix, why didn't it happen during the various lockdowns in various countries?

They have corruption, which is kind of violence.

If anything that lowers growth is a kind of violence, then it is tautological to say that you cannot lower growth without violence.

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