It's rather interesting that we lived in the future world where human will be abundant n everything else will be scarce. Do we need more war to reduce the population? Is the economic model created to promote survival only win? It's rather amusing that the previous generation went through a generation of immense growth and prosperity, while the coming will see a downhill slide.
It's not hard as supply of human with exceeding demand for resource. Either we only provide the few fortunate or we all reduce our demand n share what we have. I can't see how we can achieve the latter. Quite ironically, the baby boomers would consider not having as much resource to live with. They went through war, fight for short term survival, lived a Happy life and eventually learnt tremendous knowledge and live through several major changes in technology.
I can assure that we can't repeat the success formula to excite economic growth of the past. The world we have developed now, despite different growth speed between regions, is really at the cost of the scarce natural resource. It's the fact that there's not enough to share and we'll need to pick the winner to gain all. But does winners even gain enough to get by now? The globalisation and wealth distributions is really narrowing the resources to a group individuals. The music chair will always test the ethical boundary of each country and eventually led to inefficient or corrupt government. Everyone's figuring out the code to promote economic growth upto the level that we are salvaging each other's life to gain more of this useless game.
I believe we no longer find the dangerous living in the wild, instead it's more cancerous living with human communities. Our social system is tied closely to economic system. The focus on economic efficiency promotes deeper penetration into the society while the social benefits are no longer prioritized. I have always think in reverse that were we coming from a more well-balanced society compared to this "modern" Era where high alcohol consumption, divorce rate, different kinds of disease linger around and everyone's eyeing each other for material gain and lack of collaboration for social objectives?