A response to Yanis Varoufakis: Star Trek and Degrowth

https://timotheeparrique.com/a-response-to-varoufakis-start-trek-and-degrowth/

«Someone who doesn’t have a bike needs one bike – not a yearly rate of 3% in the production of bikes, forever.»

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«Degrowth would be a poor concept if it meant the decrease of everything, everywhere, and all the time. Degrowth is not less of the same, but simply different: “the objective is not make an elephant leaner, but to turn an elephant into a snail,” explains the authors of Degrowth: A Vocabulary for a New Era (2014).»

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«But it is also a democratic, fairer, and more convivial economy with less inequality and more free time; one that that doesn’t need constant growth in order to remain stable;.»