Is growth the best approach to maximizing the good we can do? What is the effect on the environment? How much consumption is too much?
What if low income countries were granted debt relief, so their policies were not driven by creditors? What about a global minimum wage? Or tax justice, like a universal minimum corporate tax? And what to do about climate reparations?
None of these ideas are my own, they are from this podcast:
A bit late, but perhaps you will find it interesting anyway—I have seen a couple of posts discussing Jason Hickel’s ideas on the EA forum. For example these posts are really interesting:
Is growth the best approach to maximizing the good we can do? What is the effect on the environment? How much consumption is too much?
What if low income countries were granted debt relief, so their policies were not driven by creditors? What about a global minimum wage? Or tax justice, like a universal minimum corporate tax? And what to do about climate reparations?
None of these ideas are my own, they are from this podcast:
https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/episode-58-the-neoliberal-optimism-industry
I would also wonder about the EA response to “poor countries don’t need charity, they need justice”
A bit late, but perhaps you will find it interesting anyway—I have seen a couple of posts discussing Jason Hickel’s ideas on the EA forum. For example these posts are really interesting:
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/hptEKkvtFgCGeFjw8/the-case-for-green-growth-skepticism-and-gdp-agnosticism
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/RnmsaX5TEDoaH6XcB/systemic-change-global-poverty-eradication-and-a-career-plan