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bwindelsyesterday at 8:11 PM1 replyview on HN

I wasn't taking about ideology, I was talking about what is already happening. Here's a graph of total freight volume (a proxy for the real physical economy) in the EU 15 countries since 2000, notice the peak around 2008:

https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/road_go_ta_to...


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SECProtoyesterday at 10:11 PM

> Here's a graph of total freight volume (a proxy for the real physical economy)

In 2008, people and businesses were still buying new computers every year or two, printing everything on paper, buying physical media. I don't know anyone that does this anymore. I don't think that is a good proxy.

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