Talk:Productivism

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Changed the format. Arguments for/Criticism against to balance POV. Still can't stand on its own two feet. Skol 11:16, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

Productivism is the (purported) ideology that measurable economic productivity and growth is the purpose of human organization and perhaps the purpose of life itself. It is a corollary to the related ideas of consumerism - which critics say promotes waste - and scientism - acceptance of certain measures or models of reality that are divorced from human experience, as being more 'real' than the experience itself.

I can't understand what this has to do with strong or weak scientism as I've seen them defined. I'm going to put it like this:

Productivism is the (purported) ideology that measurable economic productivity and growth is the purpose of human organization and perhaps the purpose of life itself. It is a corollary to the related ideas of consumerism - which critics say promotes waste and an acceptance of certain measures or models of reality that are divorced from human experience, as being more 'real' than the experience itself.

Maprovonsha172 15:36, 9 August 2005 (UTC)

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