&gt;Without growth, he says, economic life becomes a zero-sum game. “As Martin Wolf, the Financial Times commentator has noted, the option for everybody to become better off—where one person’s gain needn’t require another’s loss—was critical for the development and spread of the consensual politics that underpin democratic rule.” In other words, the function of economic growth is to blunt the force of envy in a world with highly skewed distributions of income and wealth.<p>The answer lies right here but the author fails to consider it. We could evolve our economic systems to redistribute obscene wealth and build a more egalitarian society. The ones who give in this scenario only lose on paper but they wouldn&#x27;t notice any difference in their day to day. This is especially true once automation becomes the norm. The article is too simplistic and fails to consider a host of important variables which are only now coming into play.