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Per capita US growth rate from economist Robert Gordon:
1928 to 1950 - 2.4%
1950 to 1964 - 2.1%
1964 to 1972 - 2.9%
1972 to 1987 - 2.1%
1987 to 2006 - 1.9%
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Thank you for supporting my point. Technological improvements increasing productivity have been getting smaller- leading to slower growth and when you add in slower population growth, GDP grows even more slowly. It has been a long term trend. If Ron Paul was President or Rand, they could not change those trends either.
Also, put another Republican/Progressive/Socialist in the WH and the same will happen. (N.B. Although the GOP as a whole is very progressive to begin with, Trump is by far the most progressive candidate ever to run for the Republican presidential nomination in history.)
Incidentally, I know it was just copied from the title in the link, but what is the reason for Obama's critics getting such a kick out of calling him Soetero?
Yeah, what happened to The Law of Accelerating Returns? http://www.kurzweilai.net/the-law-of...rating-returns
Are you suggesting that exponential growth can continue indefinitely? Is the new iPhone ten times (or any multiple) better than the one before it and that one also ten times better than the one before that? Or are improvements getting smaller between models?
Can a factory continue to double its output by improving the efficiency of their machines? OR does that rate of gain decrease?
If we make a car which goes 100 miles an hour, can we double that speed with the next car and then double it again with the next car or do we spend ever growing amounts to get a smaller and smaller improvement in speed?
We did see massive growth in technology and output in the previous century from large leaps in technology but those large gains are pretty much gone and gains are more difficult to come by.
Last edited by Zippyjuan; 04-29-2016 at 12:15 PM.
I don't know. And I don't see how we can know. I also don't see how it matters if it can or not. What you're saying is that, not only can technology not continue to improve at the rate it used to, but that it just recently crossed the threshold to where it no longer could. Do you have any reason for thinking that? It seems like an ad hoc explanation for bad economic numbers.
Per capita GDP growth has been slowing for over 50 years. That is pretty good evidence.
http://blogs.ft.com/gavyndavies/2011...ism-misplaced/
Even China's per capita GDP Growth Rate has been slowing.
Last edited by Zippyjuan; 04-29-2016 at 12:54 PM.
Supporting your point? I said something very different. I posted per capita, showing that each person accounts for less. That is because of more entitlement programs.
If you have more people collecting transfer payments thru welfare, then per capita production numbers decline. If you have fewer workers supporting retirees, then per capita production numbers decline. If you have more government jobs (transfer payments), then per capita production numbers decline.
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He usually provides a voice of reason and caution about conspiracy theories and sensationalistic claims.
I don't think I've ever seen him say things that were unsupportive of Ron or Rand Paul, or other candidates we've supported, or argue against generally libertarian ideas, even if he may have a more moderate take on them.
And still, even if you disagree with him about things, I still want to know what that has to do with whether or not he's Jewish. That charge makes it sound like you think there's a vast conspiracy that all the Jews of the world are in on, and when people here try to shine a light on it, Zippy obfuscates what they say so that he can keep this conspiracy that he as a Jew is in on from getting found out.
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I don't know. Only he can answer that. He's been here a long time and has probably had varying reasons from one day to another. I have a hard enough time figuring out why I'm here, besides being what amounts to being an addict by now.
But I don't doubt that Zippy first came here as a Ron Paul supporter looking to network with other Ron Paul supporters like I did.
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You seem to have an emotional investment in Zippy's intentions that I don't share. But I've just had the general impression that he's basically pro-free markets and noninterventionism. Maybe I'm wrong, but he strikes me as a beltway libertarian type.
A troll would come here to undermine the site. He doesn't do that. Every indication we have is that he's as much of a Ron Paul supporter as most people here. Since he's clearly not a troll, why would he have invested so much time here if not because of generally pro-Ron Paul views?
Have you seen evidence to the contrary?
Based on what? Give me a post. Any post.
He doesn't do that? That's all he does. Unless he's talking about the Denver Broncos or entertainment news, every single thread in which he participates is contrarian. Every single one. Have you not noticed this?A troll would come here to undermine the site. He doesn't do that.
What indicators? He has never made a liberty post. Ever.Every indication we have is that he's as much of a Ron Paul supporter as most people here.
There is mounds of evidence. I've posted it multiple times. He has invested time here for the purpose I have stated. So are PRB, TheCount, MaybeMaybeNot/O'Reich (same person with one account banned), Sam I Am, SquarePusher, etc. Do you seriously not notice these people and their patterns?Since he's clearly not a troll, why would he have invested so much time here if not because of generally pro-Ron Paul views?
Have you seen evidence to the contrary?
If you don't believe me, then ask him yourself. You said only he could answer regarding his purpose here, so ask him. I've asked him several times, and he refuses to answer. I asked him his voting choices. Any voting choices. Ever. He refuses to answer. He refuses to answer all questions in this vein. He then runs off to the next big thread.
And I know his background for a fact. I'm not speculating. It's public information.
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