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May. 28th, 2023 11:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
brin_bellway[cw: poverty, discourse, (arguably) apocalypse, (arguably) poison]
[loosely inspired by this tweet (h/t![[twitter.com profile]](https://p.dreamwidth.org/e0caa790ec10/-/twitter.com/favicon.ico)
zmavli), but it's been percolating for a while]
The particular set of psychological baggage you get from having spent most of your life living-primarily-off-of-dwindling-savings!poor makes degrowth discourse look *very weird*.
Every time I encounter degrowth discourse, *everyone in it* is confusing "is" and "ought". The debate ends up being between the people who think that degrowth *should* happen and the people who think that degrowth *isn't* happening.
Degrowth is not good. Degrowth is not right. But degrowth *is*. Ignore it at your peril.
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Also, while I'm on the subject, shoutout (derogatory) to this guy, whom I read because I thought there might be some common ground between voluntary-simplicity types and us involuntary-simplicity types.
But he's...like, he has one hole, and by God he is going to put *every* peg into it.
I am not ever going to have an idyllic plastic-free life as a farmer! I can maybe see myself having a *tolerable* life as a farmer paying *heavy Pigovian taxes* (or just scarcity pricing) on plastic, but do you know what's made out of plastic? *Air filters*! If he thinks I'm going to be outside working the fields all day in zero plastic, he is *out of his goddamn mind*.
[loosely inspired by this tweet (h/t
The particular set of psychological baggage you get from having spent most of your life living-primarily-off-of-dwindling-savings!poor makes degrowth discourse look *very weird*.
Every time I encounter degrowth discourse, *everyone in it* is confusing "is" and "ought". The debate ends up being between the people who think that degrowth *should* happen and the people who think that degrowth *isn't* happening.
Degrowth is not good. Degrowth is not right. But degrowth *is*. Ignore it at your peril.
---
Also, while I'm on the subject, shoutout (derogatory) to this guy, whom I read because I thought there might be some common ground between voluntary-simplicity types and us involuntary-simplicity types.
But he's...like, he has one hole, and by God he is going to put *every* peg into it.
I am not ever going to have an idyllic plastic-free life as a farmer! I can maybe see myself having a *tolerable* life as a farmer paying *heavy Pigovian taxes* (or just scarcity pricing) on plastic, but do you know what's made out of plastic? *Air filters*! If he thinks I'm going to be outside working the fields all day in zero plastic, he is *out of his goddamn mind*.
