Can GDP Growth Continue Forever? | Tyler Cowen

[Rocketboy]

There is also the whole, "factories can make things like tractors, sprinklers, fertilizer, and other things that can make farming more efficient."

Prior to WWII Russia was not a modernized farming economy, it just had a lot of very cold land.

[ilikethiskindatube]

And taking the spoils of war from central and eastern Europe.

[yesismemomnahjustyouimagin]

The same happened here, people left the family farms and went to the city.

[WhatWhy]

Thing is over urbanization leads to dystopia... We need better city planning.

[CodyOldknow]

We fail to pay attention to the benefits of the urbanization of Soviet Russia because it happened at gunpoint. The Kulaks were forced from their farms, shoved into Stolypin cars by the hundreds, and those that survived the long winter journey across Russia were rewarded with 10 to 25 years of hard labor in the gulag under the all-encompassing article 58 of the Soviet Penal code.

[IamMorpheaus]

Urbanization stifles population growth causes people who live apartments don't have 6 kids.. they have 1.

[AlexHaile-tc]

It works well? How much famine did Russia and China experience due to moving people from the cities to man the farms the government screwed over?

[Epoch]

How is it possible that in the US we built roads that cover this entire giant country. But somehow there's no money and no people to repair them.

[Krombop.M]

when the food runs out....
sure glad we have all those factory workers.

[JayMuzquiz]

He mispronounced “ theft “ and “ slavery “

[deathdrone]

The soviet economy was capital goods intensive, meaning they mainly produce things that help to produce more things, but not the stuff people (consumers) used, so eventhough they were the world's 2nd largest economy until the few years before the collapse, the standard of living for the average soviet was pretty poor.

[sangmoon]

Authoritarian governments make decisions quickly both good and bad. The problem is that the bad decisions could be catastrophic that would at least take a longer time to ponder in a multi-party government.

[Nope-wh]

China is much closer to Yatzi Germany then USSR and they have s kansian mixed conditional economy

[dkoch]

Mass starvation in both countries you set as an example during those time periods.

[levimiller]

He’s condemning communism not supporting it he’s just saying put people in a factory instead of substance farming and they make more food just because the clips bad doesn’t make him a defender of communism

[tavernburner]

Some gdp growth is more equal than others.

[desertgerbil]

farmers feed cities... if everyone moves to a city all you will have is processed food.

[isomz]

Yes gdp growth can continue forever. Innovation creates value out of nothing. Can you continue to grow at high rates? No, it will slow down and then you'll get spikes when a major breakthrough occurs.

[msdm]

Communism can kind of work at the start when the goals are big and simple. Just need mass resources being moved to it. Basic functional items. It's when markets get more sophisticated that it lacks the dymanism.

[Colonel_dinggus]

When you take farmers away to work in the city at gunpoint by rates akin to the Chernobyl evacuation, yeah you can crank up production pretty hard… until the food runs out… because there’s not enough farmers… and the harvest failed… and what little food there was was stolen and sent to the now overpopulated cities… and then the farmers starve to death… and then the cities starve to death. Just ask Ukraine. I would say ask china too but if a Chinese person gave you a truthful answer, they’d get arrested