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Discussions about degrowth and all sorts of related topics. This includes UBI, economic democracy, the economics of green technologies, enviromental legislation and many more intressting economic topics.

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A response to Hannah Ritchie: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Economic Growth – Timothée Parrique (timotheeparrique.com)

submitted 2 months ago by MrMakabar to c/degrowth

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[–] MrMakabar 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Degrowth argues that due to resource constraints, we need to cut some production as to stay within the resource constraints of the planet, while using the resources we have to provide a good quality of life for everybody. So post-scarcity economics is seen as impossible. However cutting production does mean less work time and systemsclike UBI are seen as key to make sure cutting production does not cause unnecessary harm.

Ritchie wants to solve the global Souths problems, by growing the global economy using green technology with resource constraints not being a problem due to technology. So keeping steady to move to a post scarcity world. She does this, by looking at very real trends and believes they moszly just continue

[–] reallykindasorta 2 points 2 months ago

Thanks for explaining