/lit/ - Literature

>The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth
>Ambition is the last refuge of the failure
>To be premature is to be perfect
>Any preoccupation with ideas of what is right and wrong in conduct shows an arrested intellectual development
>It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes

>Pleasure is the only thing one should live for. Nothing ages like happiness
>Dullness is the coming of age of seriousness
>Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others
>One should never listen. To listen is a sign of indifference to one's hearers

Thanks. I'm a manchild NEET. I needed some intellectual to justify my choices.

Oscar wilde was a fag

>>15829408
>>15829424
one of those quotes some people take serious while others get Wilde's humour

>>15829424
i love how women and homos are hedonists, then they ramble about morality

>>15829393
Roight, hang on jus a minute, this Oscar Wilde fella, he was a nonce? fook off!

Would more leisure lead to more productivity in the sciences and the arts?
I don't know I have my doubts.
Look at Europe.
Ever since they've adopted social democratic reforms they've stagnated.

>>15830155
>2020

corona

>>15830155
Continual economic growth is unachievable, this so called stagnation is the natural end of.

>>15830193
>Continual economic growth is unachievable
cope

>>15830155
>2020
>2013 borders

>>15830210
There are only finite resources on this planet. What do you think will happen when they are used up.

>>15830232
>finite resources
citation needed.

trees, water, cows, wind, waves etc are all renewable resources. There's a limited amount of certain metals but they can be recycled and new technology means you need less or none of it

>>15830252
I don't know what more I can tell you my American friend. As the human population expands exponentially, the amount of space which we take up and the amount of energy which is needed to sustain us (and sustain this continuous economic growth dream) will become astronomically out of hand. Please I am not going to do your research for you, it is ignorance to think that the minerals we mine are not finite. Think further ahead than the next 100 years, 100 years is not a long time.

>>15830232
>when they are used up
but this isn't true now and wont be true for a long time. you may as well concede the point now because you used it to justify stagnation or economic decline now when these are not present

>>15830232
>>15830353
this is like being a failure in life and responding when challenged about your failure by saying that everyone dies anyway. not the point retard

>>15830311
>As the human population expands exponentially
citation needed

> amount of energy which is needed to sustain us

what is renewable and nuclear energy

>>15830353
>but this isn't true now and wont be true for a long time.

Obviously it's not true now, obviously we still have a few decades of safety left. A long time is not really "a long time". Your long time definition is nothing, most likely you aren't considering even the next generation behind you.

>>15830378
>what is renewable and nuclear energy

The idiot's response to the very real problems we are facing: "I'll just leave it to future innovation". There will not be some magical answer from the sun or from the waves or from the wind which will produce the energy which is necessary. Even if that were true then we could see evidence of moving towards that based on the amount of money governments spend on the renewable energy sector. But we don't, instead we see much more investment into the mining giants who continue to only exist because of government subsidies (else the entire industry would not be profitable).

There are limits on everything, even the future innovation which the entire world is relying on. I am not going to do your research for you, because I am not going to change your mind. If you want to, you will do it yourself.

>>15830406
human population isn't even increasing that much and isn't projected to be that high, it may even decline

>>15830311
>2015 to 2020, the average world fertility rate was 2.5 children per woman,[6] about half the level in 1950–1955 (5 children per woman).

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