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Originally Posted by redpoint5
Humanity will never choose "simple" on a large scale, or for long periods of time. Simplification would be a social fad, not something integrated into the DNA of our being.
Of course, we can't consume what doesn't exist. To that end, simplification may not be a choice, but then again I don't think it ever was.
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We would choose simplification if we were truly sapient and woke to the reality of limits to growth on a finite planet. If we don't or can't it will be forced on us unwillingly eventually in an uncontrolled manor as the resources that allowed this "Great Acceleration" inevitably slip away.