Helpless Growth
What is ignored are wasted effort and natural resources, which should be subtracted from the growth calculation to reveal a more accurate number of how well people, not the "economy," are doing.
Jacob Lund Fisker • Early Retirement Extreme: A philosophical and practical guide to financial independence
The Beginning of Infinity
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The stock market is at record highs and life expectancy in the U.S. is decreasing. In the richest nation in the richest time in human history, 43% of Americans can’t pay their bills. Many of our most significant societal problems are also, not coincidentally, extremely profitable industries (fossil fuels, junk food, prescription drugs, and for-prof... See more
Yancey Strickler • Page Not Found – Collab Fund
The contemporary “degrowth” movement, Giacomo D’Alisa, Federico Demaria, and Giorgios Kallis explain, isn’t against growth, per se; it calls, instead, for a critique of growth as an end in itself, for the “decolonization of public debate from the idiom of economism and for the abolishment of economic growth as a social objective.” [4] In other word
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