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[cw: poverty, discourse, (arguably) apocalypse, (arguably) poison]


[loosely inspired by this tweet (h/t [twitter.com profile] 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*.
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