I feel like I don’t understand something. The strongest argument against “degrowth” seems that the idea collapses immediately once you consider obvious pragmatic issues, in the same sense a commune or marxist utopia sounds good but doesn’t seem to work in practice.
My guess is that the following is the real world feasibility of these systems:
As one facet of the issue with degrowth, it seems that just moderate implementations are blocked by basic geopolitical or military concerns. If most countries deindustrialized, that leaves even tiny countries like North Korea with great military power.
You might think the reaction to the above would be to keep military institutions intact, but that would lead to wild distortions and doesn’t seem to work since military effectiveness relies on other sectors (technology, cyber espionage, soft power).
I can keep writing about more issues, but it feels very sophomoric and uncharitable in doing so. That is usually a sign I don’t understand what’s going on.
I feel like I don’t understand something. The strongest argument against “degrowth” seems that the idea collapses immediately once you consider obvious pragmatic issues, in the same sense a commune or marxist utopia sounds good but doesn’t seem to work in practice.
My guess is that the following is the real world feasibility of these systems:
”capitalism >>> high quality technocratic communism >> degrowth >= anarchism ”
As one facet of the issue with degrowth, it seems that just moderate implementations are blocked by basic geopolitical or military concerns. If most countries deindustrialized, that leaves even tiny countries like North Korea with great military power.
You might think the reaction to the above would be to keep military institutions intact, but that would lead to wild distortions and doesn’t seem to work since military effectiveness relies on other sectors (technology, cyber espionage, soft power).
I can keep writing about more issues, but it feels very sophomoric and uncharitable in doing so. That is usually a sign I don’t understand what’s going on.