Steady State Revolution

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Steady State Revolution

• The Basics

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• Goals
• Replace national goal of economic growth with
  national goal of steady state economy.
• Replace bloating economy with steady state
  economy.

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Revolutions

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• Magnitude of change
• Pace of change
• When evolution wont cut it
• Evolution combined with revolt

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Steady State Revolution

• Academic, social
• Peaceable, not pacifistic
• Models
• abolition of child labor
• reduction of smoking

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Academic Phase

• Replacement of neoclassical economic growth
  theory
• Refocusing of curricula
• More public outreach

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Social Phase

• Economic growth reconstructed as economic
  bloating
• Dollar spent is dollar burned
• Castigation of the liquidating class

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Class Structure of the Steady State Revolution

•  Liquidating class
• Steady state class
• Amorphic class

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Consumption Classes
Expenditures
Percentile 80 99 100

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Consumption Classes
Liquidating Class
Expenditures
Percentile 80 99 100

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Consumption Classes
Liquidating Class
Expenditures
Steady State Class
Percentile 80 99 100

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Consumption Classes
Liquidating Class
Expenditures
Amorphic Class
Steady State Class
Percentile 80 99 100

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Liquidators
Amorphs
Steady Staters
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Population
Liquidating Class
Amorphic Class
Steady State Class
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Consumption
Liquidating Class
Amorphic Class
Steady State Class
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Economic Rationale

• Trickle-down consumption
• Redistribution of wealth compensates for reduced
  per capita consumption
• Reduction of waste
• Leads toward steady state economy

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Consumption
Liquidators
Ecological Capacity
Amorphs
Most Steady Staters
PovertyLine
Some Steady Staters
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Trickle-down Consumption
Liquidators
Ecological Capacity
Amorphs
Liquidators Amorphs Steady Staters
Most Steady Staters
PovertyLine
Some Steady Staters
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Political Rationale

• No everyone revolt against everybody
• Taps into predisposition
• Readily identifiable classes

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Psychological Rationale

• Darwin, Veblen, Maslow
• Cure for liquidator syndrome
• Ratcheting effect toward sustainable ideology

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Maslows Hierarchy

• Food
• Security
• Love, affection, reproduction
• Self-esteem
• Self-actualization

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Sociopolitical Rationale

• Ideological horse before the public policy cart
• Supplementary to policy prescriptions
• Replaces politicians, not system

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Ethics

• Equity (current, intergenerational)
• Consistent with religions
• Devil in the details of castigation
• Tolerance overrated

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Nothing could be more salutary than a little
healthy contempt for a plethora of material
blessings.

• Aldo Leopold, 1948

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Remember

• A dollar spent
• is a dollar burned!

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