{"id":23067,"date":"2017-03-03T21:19:55","date_gmt":"2017-03-04T02:19:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=23067"},"modified":"2017-03-03T21:20:05","modified_gmt":"2017-03-04T02:20:05","slug":"go-long-chain-makers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=23067","title":{"rendered":"Go Long Chain Makers"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nLeonardo da Vinci\u00a0Head of a Woman\u00a0<\/b>1470s \u00a0<\/center>
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\u00a0<\/center>This is turning into a very rewarding series, it opens up vistas I could never have dreamed of. First, in\u00a0\u201cNot Nearly Enough Growth To Keep Growing\u201d<\/a>, I posited that peak wealth for the west, and America in particular, was sometime in the early \u201970s or late \u201960s of the last century.<\/p>\n

That led to longtime Automatic Earth reader Ken Latta, who\u2019s old enough to have been alive to see it all, writing, in\u00a0\u201cWhen Was America\u2019s Peak Wealth?\u201d<\/a>, that in his view peak wealth for America was earlier, more like late \u201950s to early \u201960s, a carefree period for which Detroit provided the design, and the Beach Boys the soundtrack.<\/p>\n

And I know, for those who wrote to me about this, that there\u2019s quite a bit of myopia involved in focusing on the US, or even the western world in general, when discussing these things. But at the same time, we\u2019re all at our best when talking about our own experiences, something this thread has made abundantly clear. That said, I would absolutely love to get a view from other parts of the world, China, Latin America, Africa, Eastern Bloc, on the same topic. I just haven\u2019t received any yet.<\/p>\n

What I\u2019ve absolutely adored is how -previously- anonymous Automatic Earth readers and commenters have felt the urge to share their life experiences because of what\u2019s been written. This happened especially after Ken\u2019s follow-up to his initial article,\u00a0\u201cPeak American Wealth \u2013 Revisited\u201d<\/a>, which saw many of his contemporaries, as well as younger readers after I \u2018poked\u2019 them, relate their views.<\/p>\n

Then there was distinguished emeritus professor Charles A. Hall, who took offense with neither Ken nor I including energy as an explicit factor in determining wealth. Of course he was right. I have the creeping suspicion he often is.<\/p>\n

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Go Long Chain Makers Leonardo da Vinci\u00a0Head of a Woman\u00a01470s \u00a0\u00a0This is turning into a very rewarding series, it opens up vistas I could never have dreamed of. First, in\u00a0\u201cNot Nearly Enough Growth To Keep Growing\u201d, I posited that peak wealth for the west, and America in particular, was sometime in the early \u201970s or […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[14933,2857,263,277,4654,14934,14935,14936,14881,13924,14937,731,5177],"class_list":["post-23067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-energy-2","tag-auschwitz","tag-demand","tag-energy","tag-eroei","tag-eroi","tag-hall","tag-jackson","tag-latta","tag-peak-wealth","tag-raul-ilargi-meijer","tag-seneca","tag-slavery","tag-the-automatic-earth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23067"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23069,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23067\/revisions\/23069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}