Economic dilemmas

Business all over everything. I've just read about the twelve debilitating steps to turn a "lead" into a customer. More employees are involved in sales than in production. In fact there is sufficient goods and food in the world to meet everyone's needs, but they are rather destroyed to keep the profit.

Is economic growth a must?
India’s economic growth is behind expectation this year, it is “only” about 5% instead of 7%. In recent years it is about 3-5% in Hungary. Politicians and economists aim at high numbers, after all growth is good. They think economy can grow forever in a finite planet. Is it? If we rely on growth, we will run out of the planet. Economic growth comes from the exploitation of natural resources, which are not unlimited. It keeps economies stable, but threatens our future. It is based on endless production and consumption spiral.
There is a solution

Unemployment
In India 5% economic growth is a disaster, as it means that the economy is not able to take up the school-leaving population. Rapid growth is needed to elevate the standard of living and reduce unemployment rate. At least it was true in the past, but the recent trend shows that new investments, which would be the engine of growth, increasingly use automation, so they don’t reduce the unemployment rate.
In Hungary it is not a problem, I have heard, workers are in great demand. Then I open the KSH pages. Rakaca (a village in county Borsod), 100% unemployment. Villages all around the country where people can't find a job. They can't, don't want to move to cities.
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Compulsive shopping
Yeah, to keep up the market economy, we need avid shoppers, who are willing to go into debt and buy, buy.
Most of us are impulsive shoppers and it is not our fault. But we don’t need that stuff. Our houses are jammed with unwanted goods, we spend a whole life by hoarding them.
On the top of it, prices of goods and services don’t reflect environmental costs. We pay for pollution mostly with our health. Cancer, autoimmune diseases, diabetes, which were not known even 500 years ago.
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Crammed into cities
More and more people are forced to migrate, and this tendency will get even worse. The reasons go from war to climate change and also for a desire to live better. People leave their country, when they have no other options. More migrate from villages to cities worldwide. First time in the history, more than half of humans live in cities, mostly out of necessity, in the hope of getting job. They live next to each other like strangers, without forging communities. When people die, they remain unnoticed for months. Governments abandon rural areas, because cities can be supported more effectively with the same resource. City-dwellers miss access to nature and a sense of community. They feel insecure, lonely and depressed.
There is a solution

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