Energy productivity translates into satisfaction. To satisfy the desire to converse, cook or read in the evening, one analyses the rational design and arrangement of the light fixtures. This will indeed result in a calculable reduction in wattage required for a given lighting system. This plan predicts a decline in polarization and a reduction of shadow economy work when not only salaries and wages, but also the exploitation of nature is taxed. Indeed, the proposal suggests that we can begin to think about a prosperity that is not the result of producing ever more.
Proponents speak about remaining within the range of reasonable and appropriate expectations.
The ultimate criterion for taxes would not be a quantitative measure of production and circulation of goods, but an excessive exploitation of the environment. The principal guide for social policy would be appropriateness and not percentages. From Friedrich Engels to Milton Friedman, from fiscal liberals to conservatives, the redistribution of the social product is the basis for a general prosperity. In all current scenarios, a world market is simply a given. In this respect, clearly, Kohr's idea of smallness is simply irrelevant, if not nonsensical.