Comments on: too early to leave? http://global-culture.org/too-early-to-leave/ Sustainable, Memorable, Livable Mon, 03 Jan 2011 22:40:30 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: juan http://global-culture.org/too-early-to-leave/comment-page-1/#comment-119049 juan Mon, 12 Jan 2009 14:00:56 +0000 http://global-culture.org/blog/?p=376#comment-119049 Great insight Ron. Some of these arguments led me to my current thread on slow-urban and the need to adjust the pace of our economic output to the current situation. While this is not a solution for everyone I believe many people in the service economy could very well afford to slow down while investing time into a creative thinking phase. Great insight Ron. Some of these arguments led me to my current thread on slow-urban and the need to adjust the pace of our economic output to the current situation. While this is not a solution for everyone I believe many people in the service economy could very well afford to slow down while investing time into a creative thinking phase.

]]> By: Ron Amundson http://global-culture.org/too-early-to-leave/comment-page-1/#comment-119034 Ron Amundson Sun, 11 Jan 2009 22:29:51 +0000 http://global-culture.org/blog/?p=376#comment-119034 The output level needed to get through this is a challenge, especially as consumer consumption continues to drop off. If demand isnt there, further output is contradictory, albeit having everyone morph to 35 hour workweeks and long lunches wont happen en mass, as survivors will likely increase output... but then what about society as a whole, as further output will decrease demand even further. Perhaps the solution may lie in a different value system as input, and different output as a result. Its not simple by any means. Looking at the colletive whole as you alluded to is likely part of the answer, but its not an easy one either. The output level needed to get through this is a challenge, especially as consumer consumption continues to drop off. If demand isnt there, further output is contradictory, albeit having everyone morph to 35 hour workweeks and long lunches wont happen en mass, as survivors will likely increase output… but then what about society as a whole, as further output will decrease demand even further. Perhaps the solution may lie in a different value system as input, and different output as a result. Its not simple by any means.

Looking at the colletive whole as you alluded to is likely part of the answer, but its not an easy one either.

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