Hi Jake, I've read the Peter Thiel's essay and also watched your video on stagnation, but I'm still confused on how exactly lack of growth degenerate into violence. I understand the general argument "If the pie stop grwoing, the only way to get more is to steal part of the pie from someone else", but this is a very high-level argument, describing an abstract model of a social dynamic. I have these questions:
1. Can you share books/articles/essays that show empirical data from history that explains exactly how a stagnant society degenerates into violence? What are the stages that a society goes through that end up in violence?
2. If a society realizes that constant growth is impossible, couldn't the EGO(Embedded growth obligation) problem be solved by just maintaining the number of population constant over time? Planning birth rates in such a way that in the next generation there are not more people than in the previous one.
Hi Jake, I've read the Peter Thiel's essay and also watched your video on stagnation, but I'm still confused on how exactly lack of growth degenerate into violence. I understand the general argument "If the pie stop grwoing, the only way to get more is to steal part of the pie from someone else", but this is a very high-level argument, describing an abstract model of a social dynamic. I have these questions:
1. Can you share books/articles/essays that show empirical data from history that explains exactly how a stagnant society degenerates into violence? What are the stages that a society goes through that end up in violence?
2. If a society realizes that constant growth is impossible, couldn't the EGO(Embedded growth obligation) problem be solved by just maintaining the number of population constant over time? Planning birth rates in such a way that in the next generation there are not more people than in the previous one.