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> Is degrowth just the uncontroversial claim that what really matters is people leading good lives, or is it the wildly controversial claim that people would le
by itishappy 2y ago
> Is degrowth just the uncontroversial claim that what really matters is people leading good lives, or is it the wildly controversial claim that people would lead equally good lives even if we were to systematically shrink GDP in rich countries to focus on sustainability?
That's a great question. In my mind the great question. I have not encountered much degrowth sentiment online, it seems largely to be anti-growth-at-all-costs sentiment (the former of the two questions). The article appears to assume and argue against the latter.
- sumuyuda 2y agoI think the degrowth discussion is not anti-growth at all costs, but reducing damaging and wasteful production and instead focusing on production that provides social good for humans. See this podcast: https://techwontsave.us/episode/226_how_degrowth_will_reshape_technology_w_jason_hickel https://techwontsave.us/episode/226_how_degrowth_will_reshap...
- cholantesh 2y agoThere's also an episode on effective altruism, which the author is a proponent of, which is pretty important in casting light on this frame of analysis.
- sumuyuda 2y agoDo you have a link to the episode?
- cholantesh 2y agoTo clarify it's actually been talked about a few times, but with specific focus on substrands/topics in EA. Here are two that I'm aware of: https://techwontsave.us/episode/198_how_effective_accelerationism_divides_silicon_valley_w_emile_torres https://techwontsave.us/episode/198_how_effective_accelerati... https://techwontsave.us/episode/138_dont_fall_for_the_longtermism_sales_pitch_w_emile_p_torres https://techwontsave.us/episode/138_dont_fall_for_the_longte...