Brian Anderson(@BrianAcity):It’s worth reading Kōhei Saitō’s Slow Down, a manifesto for the degrowth movement, to get a sense of the destructive telos of this movement. A low-growth world would be a zero-sum world; if abundance is treated as the problem, then politics invariably becomes a fight over resources and control. The humane alternative is more innovation, more agency

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Brian Anderson@BrianAcity

2026.05.19 15:07

It’s worth reading Kōhei Saitō’s Slow Down, a manifesto for the degrowth movement, to get a sense of the destructive telos of this movement. A low-growth world would be a zero-sum world; if abundance is treated as the problem, then politics invariably becomes a fight over resources and control. The humane alternative is more innovation, more agency—and more growth.