Can growth be equated to progress? Data show that it is not GDP growth by itself that improves people’s lives but how money is distributed, notably through investing in public infrastructures.

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"We can choose to keep shooting up the curve of exponential growth, bringing us ever closer to irreversible tipping points in ecological collapse, and hope that technology will save us. But if for some reason it doesn't work, then we're in trouble." (Jason Hickel)

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The capitalist imperative of systematic and endless wealth accumulation has often been compared to a giant squid writhing its tentacles in ever more sources of profit. Why its grip, and with what consequences?

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Capitalism is the first intrinsically expansionist economic system in history. “There was no smooth, natural ‘transition’ to capitalism, and it has nothing to do with human nature,” argues Jason Hickel.

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“Degrowth” does not imply having less but more. More through a better pre-distribution of the economic outcome and more through expanding the boundaries of human community and consciousness.

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