Degrowth can sound pretty reasonable, as it highlights that increasing GDP is perfectly compatible with mass languishing and a burning planet. But the good ideas in degrowth don't actually require abandoning increasing innovation and wealth. And the bad ideas in degrowth—deindustrialization, sufficiency economics, the HOA-fication of society—will tend to lead to central planning, mass impoverishment, and coercion. https://www.liberalcurrents.com/degrowth-neither-left-nor-right-but-backward/
Degrowth: Neither Left Nor Right, But Backward
As we pare away the extraneous elements to get to the core of degrowth, we find an illiberal philosophy fundamentally at odds with human freedom and human welfare.
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