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SUMMARY:Prosperity
DESCRIPTION:Register!\n\nModernity has brought us more energetic and mat
 erial prosperity than the royalty of antiquity experienced. This prosper
 ity comes at an obvious\, though intensely hidden\, human and ecological
  cost. Most economists and CEOs want to convince us our levels of prospe
 rity aren’t nearly enough\, and we need more energy and more materials
 . Certain thinkers\, such as Derrick Jensen\, think that none of this in
 dustrial prosperity justifies the costs\, and we should disband with our
  material and energy wealth altogether in order to save as much life on 
 the planet as possible. Others\, like Jason Hickel\, think that we can m
 aintain relatively high levels of prosperity – every human being can 
 still own a laptop\, for example – and we can still maintain a sustai
 nable existence on the planet. Considering the myth of perpetual progres
 s and the massive human population\, how should we weigh arguments about
  our wealth? There are plenty of definitions of wealth outside of the do
 minant materialist\, individualist\, growth-based culture\, so what real
 ly is wealth anyways?
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