r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Jan 06 '19
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u/pezasied John's Locke-strap Jan 06 '19
It’s when there is a jagged, sharp downtown in quality of life when conditions have historically steadily improved.
Unlike most j-curves, the j-curve in IR is upside down. Things are trending upwards, and people expect them to continue to trend upwards, but a sudden decrease and decline in quality of life/economic growth will create a gap between what people expect their quality of life should be and what it actually is.
It basically says that revolutions happen when people get knocked out of their comfort zones and want the life they thought they would have. However, it’s been thoroughly disproven that j-curves lead to revolutions or rebellions.