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Beiträge, die mit growth getaggt sind
George Tsakraklides
‘The best type of degrowth is practiced as a pre-emptive measure at a time of health and abundance, not when it is too late, to ensure that maximum resource is conserved for the difficult times ahead.’
Biology Lessons In Degrowth
#Degrowth #Biology #Economics #Growth
https://georgetsakraklides.substack.com/p/biology-lessons-in-degrowth?r=4mkmev&utm_medium=ios&triedRedirect=true
Biology Lessons In Degrowth
Every economy which fails to manage its growth eventually destroys itself.George Tsakraklides (The George Tsakraklides View)
In an unequal society where the majority must invest the lion’s share of their time and energy into the labour required to obtain the bare necessities of life, individuals lose much in the way of personal freedom and life satisfaction. But we also collectively sacrifice unfathomable quantities of human creativity and potential. There might be abundant growth, but that can matter very little if its fruits aren’t broadly shared.
Redistribution does not equal, as Klein and Thompson assert, a mere “parceling out of the present.” In a very difference sense than theirs, it represents its own agenda of abundance — one reflecting the richest egalitarian ideas of the 19th and 20th centuries. The liberalism of the 21st might reject those ideas, but many of us on the left still see them as indispensable. Socialism, contrary to what many of its critics have historically claimed, is first and foremost concerned with human freedom: freedom to think, freedom to dream, freedom to create, freedom to live unburdened by toil
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Klein and Thompson appear to believe distributional questions can be mostly elided if enough new technology is invented and a sufficient quantity of stuff is built and produced. Contentious debates about degrowth aside, I find this assertion vastly more improbable and utopian than the project of universal social welfare or the realization of social and economic rights. Scientific and technological innovations can be hugely beneficial, but until we live in the world of Star Trek: The Next Generation it’s unlikely they will ever compensate for the dearth of social and economic justice."
https://www.lukewsavage.com/p/the-paucity-of-abundance
#Liberalism #USA #Neoliberalism #Growth #Degrowth #Socialism #Abundance
The paucity of Abundance
The hotly-debated new book by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson is a grand sketch of liberalism's future that fails to reach beyond the lean horizons of its presentLuke Savage
Hopes of #growth hang deflated, borrowing takes its toll, and spending cuts loom...
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/08/growth-politics-public-good-society-rowan-williams
#Economics #Growth #ForWhom #UkPolitics #RowanWilliams #CommonSense #QuestionAssumptions
by Another Angry Voice on Substack
@UKLabour
“Keir Starmer's military spending splurge is characterised by dishonesty about where the money is coming from, and dishonesty about the consequences”
https://open.substack.com/pub/anotherangryvoice/p/keir-starmer-dishonest-military-splurge?r=27oltk&utm_medium=ios
#Press #UK #Labour #Starmer #Military #Spending #Dishonesty #Delusion #Ukraine #Putin #Russia #Economy #Growth #PermanentWar #BAESystems #Thales #GeneralDynamics #Babcock #LockheedMartin #RollsRoyce
Keir Starmer is being dishonest about his military spending splurge
Keir Starmer's military spending splurge is characterised by dishonesty about where the money is coming from, and dishonesty about the consequences.Another Angry Voice
"Historians and social scientists have sought to explain the origins of the political hegemony of growth: the dominance of the pursuit of GDP growth as a political objective. Growth might not be an economic imperative in the abstract, this literature suggests, but rather a political imperative, locked in by power relations, institutions, and accounting systems geared towards its pursuit. The contemporary preoccupation with GDP first emerged as a response to the need of governments to manage economic production during the Great Depression and the Second World War, whereas growth-targeting became entrenched during the Cold War, linked to the arms race between the two blocs. An iterative process between accounting and targeting, and the institutions geared towards the measurement and pursuit of GDP, gradually made growth appear as a natural and unquestionable objective. But the success of growth, as a political objective, stems from its function, which was to appease and deflect distributional conflict, becoming a core factor of state legitimacy and political stability."Btw basically every sentence in this has citations, in case you want to read MORE. I'm taking the citation numbers out to make for easier reading.
#Degrowth #history #WWII #ColdWar #Growth #EconomicGrowth @histodons
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanplh/article/PIIS2542-5196(24)00310-3/fulltext
"What no Growth?"
Luckily there's a viable alternative.
https://gettingreal.org.uk/2024/07/14/what-no-growth/
#Heathrow #Growth #degrowth
Orbán’s power to disrupt is exaggerated
The economic difficulties facing the Hungarian leader with will further undermine his ability to hijack — let alone drive — the EU’s agenda.Mujtaba Rahman (POLITICO)
Sorry you hated us: 5 grovelling apologies from UK politicians
Taken over as the leader of a wounded political party? Try some self-flagellation.John Johnston (POLITICO)
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#selling #services #woo #ecommerce #business #freelancers #growth #website #design #entrepreneur #online #success #blog #guide #facebook #marketplace
― Matshona Dhilwayo
🔗 · https://poligraf.tumblr.com/post/737355745678573568/authors-profile-on-x-matshonad
#quotes #MatshonaDhilwayo #growth #light #darkness #seed #fear
And feeds the green earth with its swift decay,
Leaving it richer for the growth of truth. »
― James Russell Lowell
🔗 · https://poligraf.tumblr.com/post/769869623828103168/evil-springs-up-and-flowers-and-bears-no
#quotes #JamesRussellLowell #evil #good #decay #growth #truth
Poligraf · The Artistic Impulse
Evil springs up, and flowers, and bears no seed, And feeds the green earth with its swift decay, Leaving it richer for the growth of truth. — James Russell Lowellpoligraf (Tumblr)