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“Consider this: the richest 1% (all of whom are millionaires) capture some $19 trillion in income every year, which represents nearly a quarter of global GDP… It meant that a quarter of all the labour we render, all the resources we extract, and all the CO2 we emit is done to make rich people richer.” In support of abandoning GDP growth and focus on human well-being and ecological stability.
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Nov 02, 2026 03:12PM
ALSO the idea of a degrowth system ties into the last book i read (Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela David) about prison abolition. if people have access to more resources and allowed a higher quality of life, you lose a lot of reasons that people tend to break the law. SO if you emphasize the production of what is necessary, and promote the distribution of these goods evenly, you also decrease potential crime and imprisonment, shrinking the prison industrial system. also seeing as prison labor is necessary in growing industries (cheap labor and large production of goods) you’re losing the incentive to incarcerate people and abuse their labor. this is all super basic stuff but the books i’m reading are connecting because everything is connected. it would be a harsh transition into this sort of world, but it’s seems so incredible
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