The degrowth movement wants to intentionally shrink the economy to address climate change, and create lives with less stuff, less work, and better well-being. But is it a utopian fantasy?
It won’t happen because the ones interested in keeping us convinced we’re hardwired to acquire stuff would not want it, and they’re the ones in control.
Ascetics exist. Minimalists exist. Fuck, Marie Kondo exists. The desire for stuff is not some immutable force like gravity. It’s just what we’ve been taught by the ones selling the stuff.
Eh, humans are hardwired to acquire stuff. This will never catch on. It'd be cool if it did. But it won't.
naturalistic fallacy intensifies
Even if people were "hard wired" to do bad things, a system that encourages those bad things is a worse system.
This belongs in a capitalist propaganda bingo card
Humans are hard wired to take care of each other. You're mistaking human nature with materialism.
But hey, do you doomer.
It won’t happen because the ones interested in keeping us convinced we’re hardwired to acquire stuff would not want it, and they’re the ones in control.
Ascetics exist. Minimalists exist. Fuck, Marie Kondo exists. The desire for stuff is not some immutable force like gravity. It’s just what we’ve been taught by the ones selling the stuff.
Human nature is sculpted and shaped by the material conditions around you, it's not something immutable and forever the same.
If a society is built around endless accumulation then of course it would be considered only natural to most.
After all, if you were born and lived your whole life in a coal mine, you'd say it's human nature to cough.
Macroeconomics student moment
Nope. That's just you.