It is deeply misleading to suggest that accelerating economic growth “has been the norm for most of human history”.
From my understanding of historical growth rate estimates this is wrong. (As in, it is not “deeply misleading”.)
Most historical growth rates were far slower than economic growth today. I think you might mean that we have transitioned over time from slower to faster growth modes.
To me, this sounds very similar to “economic growth has accelerated over time”. And it sounds like this has happened over a long total period of time.
Maybe you think it has been very discrete with phases (seems unlikely to me as the dominant driver is likely to be population growth and better ability for technological development (e.g. reducing malnutrition)). Or maybe you think that it is key that the change in the rate of growth has historically been slow in sidereal time.
From my understanding of historical growth rate estimates this is wrong. (As in, it is not “deeply misleading”.)
To me, this sounds very similar to “economic growth has accelerated over time”. And it sounds like this has happened over a long total period of time.
Maybe you think it has been very discrete with phases (seems unlikely to me as the dominant driver is likely to be population growth and better ability for technological development (e.g. reducing malnutrition)). Or maybe you think that it is key that the change in the rate of growth has historically been slow in sidereal time.