Jacobs' Arguments
The following is a summary of Jacobs' description of the decay in each area.
- Community and Family
- People are increasingly choosing consumerism over family welfare, that is: consumption over fertility; debt over family budget discipline; fiscal advantage to oneself at the expense of community welfare.
- Higher Education
- Universities are more interested in credentials than providing high quality education.
- Bad Science
- Elevation of economics as the main "science" to consider in making major political decisions.
- Bad Government
- Governments are more interested in deep-pocket interest groups than the welfare of the population.
- Bad Culture
- A culture that prevents people from understanding/realising the deterioration of fundamental physical resources which the entire community depends on.
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