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The strategy described in this chapter focuses on living inexpensively in a culture dedicated to extravagance, productivity, and material waste. It follows these guidelines: Reduce wants and needs from the marketplace to a minimum to decouple the buy-work connection. Decrease the volume and size but increase the sophistication of your activities an
... See moreJacob Lund Fisker • Early Retirement Extreme: A philosophical and practical guide to financial independence
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IN OUR SOCIETY, the increased production of goods—privately produced goods—is, as we have seen, a basic measure of social achievement. This is partly the result of the great continuity of ideas which links the present with a world in which production indeed meant life. Partly, it is a matter of vested interest. Partly, it is a product of the elabor
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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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James Suzman • Work
One person who was willing to risk political suicide was the visionary systems thinker Donella Meadows – one of the lead authors of the 1972 Limits to Growth report – and she didn’t mince her words. ‘Growth is one of the stupidest purposes ever invented by any culture,’ she declared in the late 1990s; ‘we’ve got to have an enough.’ In response to t
... See moreKate Raworth • Doughnut Economics: The must-read book that redefines economics for a world in crisis
So if humans are needed neither as producers nor as consumers, what will safeguard their physical survival and their psychological well-being?
Yuval Noah Harari • 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
In the new capitalist creed, the first and most sacred commandment is: ‘The profits of production must be reinvested in increasing production.’
Yuval Noah Harari • Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
I would contend that the frontal attack was on the lifetime-pace of the suburban good life. But to overthrow this suburban sense of the good life, you needed to discredit the timekeepers themselves. So march on Washington they did. They shouted that the timekeepers of the present, who required a lifetime of loyalty and commitment, were restricting.