Enjoy “Peak Everything” while it lasts

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1713209.Peak_Everything

Between the mid-18th century and the mid-19th, industrial-era production, transportation, and communication were introduced. They proliferated. The scales were awesome.

Amongst the awe and celebration was a sense of foreboding, intimations of consequences. The Luddites and the Transcendentalists, for example, recognized what had been unleashed.

The process accelerated for 200 years. An idea is that it has limits and it’s peaking now.

At the peak, much seems beneficial. On the basis of unbelievable productivity, the prices of food, clothing, commodities, etc. are cheap. Even the price of credit is cheap (low interest rates).

Shoes for $24.95 and mortgages at 3% won’t last.

Some say life expectancy of 80 (for the privileged among us) is peaking now and will never be seen again.

As communication and transportation have been globalized, with resultant complexity and congestion, people have become stressed. And: underlying the flood of produce and commodities is an accelerating crisis of over-exploitation, depletion, and pollution. The planet is stressed.

The economy seems dynamic, but, going forward, the “externalities” will impact growth rates. It’s all been too much (hypertrophy) and it’s all downhill from here.