Yeah, recessions tend harm SWB, but I don’t see why a planned degrowth as I picture it would: e.g., if people work less, they’d earn less, but if we have UBI and more welfare, we may end up having more in the end. Reg #3&4: decreasing working hours would be costly (e.g., retraining). But if we’re to consume less, we’d produce less, so there’d be less jobs available, so we can redistribute working hours. In reference to #1, it should ofc not be made in an authoritarian way, but I think there should be other ways, and less working hours should be related to more job satisfaction/more SWB.
Yeah, recessions tend harm SWB, but I don’t see why a planned degrowth as I picture it would: e.g., if people work less, they’d earn less, but if we have UBI and more welfare, we may end up having more in the end.
Reg #3&4: decreasing working hours would be costly (e.g., retraining). But if we’re to consume less, we’d produce less, so there’d be less jobs available, so we can redistribute working hours. In reference to #1, it should ofc not be made in an authoritarian way, but I think there should be other ways, and less working hours should be related to more job satisfaction/more SWB.