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In modern society, economic growth is often considered as a national priority goal, and economic value as the top value. However, in the process of achieving economic growth, those economic activities with clearly predicted human goals have caused a great number of unpredicted results. Due to these economic activities aiming at limited goals, humans may be drifting away from more advanced and important goals. What is sowed as a dragon’s seed is reaped as a flea. This paradoxical effect is most frequent in today’s world!
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Sun, W., Zhang, M. (2015). The Rationalization of Economic Growth: Critique of Economic Activities and Human Existence. In: The “New Culture”. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-48011-3_1
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