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The European Union’s remarkable growth performance relative to the United States (www.bruegel.org)
submitted 9 months ago by Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de to c/europe@feddit.de
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The article chooses to take a metric that you usually do not see much: GDP per employee and per hours worked, at purchasing power standards

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[–] Ooops@kbin.social 3 points 9 months ago

While there is valid criticism about constant growth, it actually exists. More is produced by less input in ressources, because we got better at it.

The actual problem I talk about is that this growth is not going back into the system but it accumulates at the top.