One alternate question might be, "At what point in time do you consider the economy to have become 'big enough' that you don't care about growth?" Today? 2000? 1990? 1970?
The people who might think today is "big enough" might also have thought that say 1990 was big enough, and yet very few people would want to be limited to 1990's tech / culture. It seems reasonable to imagine that people in say 2050 will look back on benighted 2015 and marvel at the shit we had to put up with. What gets us from today to 2050? Economic growth, which is likely tied into lots of other things (like science, production, entrepreneurship, etc.).
One alternate question might be, "At what point in time do you consider the economy to have become 'big enough' that you don't care about growth?" Today? 2000? 1990? 1970?
The people who might think today is "big enough" might also have thought that say 1990 was big enough, and yet very few people would want to be limited to 1990's tech / culture. It seems reasonable to imagine that people in say 2050 will look back on benighted 2015 and marvel at the shit we had to put up with. What gets us from today to 2050? Economic growth, which is likely tied into lots of other things (like science, production, entrepreneurship, etc.).