Totalitarian enforced inequality is the only possible course of centralized Degrowth: 10,000 for me, one for you, unless you disobey, and then you get no.
The fantasy is that everything will quickly be super-abundant and inexpensive again due to the fact that creating cash out of thin air develops demand out of thin air and supply will constantly magically appear if there is need. The truth is super-abundant and low-cost is opted for good. Need doesn’t create brand-new supply by magic; if the supply is gone, then need has no magical power to conjure supply out of thin air.
The other dream is that there will constantly be a low-cost replacement for whatever’s been depleted. If the oil is depleted in one place, there’s still plenty to extract in Timbukthree. Or we’ll change oil with electrical energy produced by modern paint on our roofings, and we’ll replace all those countless giant airliners using jet fuel with little, sluggish electric aircraft– absolutely nothing will alter except we’ll continue to have more of whatever.
The reality is the current international economy is a Landfill Economy that glorifies waste as growth. The faster substandard items fail and are taken to the Landfill and changed with a new one, the greater our “growth.” The higher the waste, friction and scams, the greater the “growth.”
There is an sane option to this madness. It’s called Degrowth. Degrowth is the English translation of decroissance, a French word created in 1976 to describe an approach that has actually expanded into an international motion from 1977 to today. The root significance is decline, which refers to both the economy and the state. The core thesis of my new book and the degrowth motion is the global economy based on long-term expansion of intake is unsustainable due to physical and expense limits: infinite development on a limited world is not possible.
The problem is the present global financial system is optimized for long-term expansion, as the consensus holds that without long-term growth, the world will fall into the void of depression and the disputes that arise from prevalent financial difficulty.
What the consensus easily overlooks is the world has actually altered in the previous 90 years of fast-rising consumption. The human population was much smaller sized in 1930 and per capita intake was a portion of current consumption of energy and resources. Recoverable resources are no longer plentiful, and humanity’s large consumption of hydrocarbons has actually had planetary consequences.
The degrowth motion holds that this obsession with long-term growth is not just unrealistic, it is devastating to society, as every aspect of everyday life has been oriented to the goal of expanding intake. This tyranny of development has distilled all of human venture into procedures of growth such as Gdp (GDP) while overlooking the costs and dangers of this absurd tyranny of unlimited growth or we all pass away.
In practical terms, Degrowth means:
1) Doing more– far more– with much less by removing ineffective waste, friction, scams and speculative skimming
2) Incentivizing radically enhancing performances and performance: doing more with less capital, resources and labor
3) Decentralizing capital and company down to regional levels of analytical and production of basics
4) Removing the: Land fill Economy of inferior goods and services and prepared obsolescence
5) Deglobalizing and definancializing our economy and our every day lives to enhance adaptability, flexibility and development in service not of highly concentrated wealth in the hands of the couple of but of the well-being of the lots of.
The billionaire’s toadies in the World Economic Forum (WEF) have actually promoted a central, totalitarian version of Degrowth that leaves the wealth and power in the hands of the couple of while sending to prison the rest of us in a new-fangled Gulag. It’s called The Fantastic Reset. The glossy The Excellent Reset PR is a packaged set of superficial pleased stories about climate modification, the 4th Industrial Transformation, blah which studiously avoids discussing the most essential function of The Great Reset:
The billionaires get to enjoy their $100 million yachts, personal jets and greatly safeguarded compounds while the rest people labor as serfs on the plantations of the most affluent couple of. The The Great Reset PR tagline is “You’ll own nothing and be a happy serf!” or something like that.
As for serfs who attempt to get away the plantation– no bread for you. The core of The Great Reset is a system of social control and punishment that would make totalitarian dictators everywhere weep with envy.
Totalitarian imposed inequality is the only possible path of centralized Degrowth: 10,000 for me, one for you, unless you disobey, and after that you get absolutely no.
The option is decentralized Degrowth that resets the system’s rewards from waste, friction, fraud and the supremacy of centralized inequality to a locally controlled sustainability. I’ve prepared a roadmap to such a system. Maybe someone else has a much better one, but we have to begin someplace. Here’s mine: Global Crisis, National Renewal: A (Revolutionary) Grand Strategy for the United States. You don’t have to buy the book; the very first area is free.
There is a service that works for everyone other than those with the $100 million yachts, jets and substances and their WEF toadies: decentralized degrowth. Maybe the billionaires will need to squander fewer resources and the WEF toadies will need to find out to do something besides kiss billionaire’s derrieres. Oh, boo-hoo. How cruel and dreadful that the rest people might really have a say and some capital.
Charles Hugh Smith on The Excellent Reset Agenda (42 minutes, with Richard Bonugli)
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