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I think the degrowth discussion is not anti-growth at all costs, but reducing damaging and wasteful production and instead focusing on production that provides
by sumuyuda 2y ago
I 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...