Satiety thesis

The saturation thesis is an economic hypothesis that is supposed to justify the cause of a persistent "growth weakness". Proponents of the saturation thesis consider exponential overall economic growth and consequently a progressive absolute increase in prosperity to be impossible.

Reference is made to " The Limits to Growth " (Club of Rome). In addition, economic growth is limited on the demand side, because in modern societies supposedly the needs are shifting from material, producible goods to needs for intangible goods such as leisure and quality of life . A change in values from a market-oriented, affluent society to a leisure society is the reason for production stagnation and thus also stagnation in economic growth.