Let’s put some life into this sub. I don’t think degrowth is possible under capitalism because the imperative to degrow contradicts the capitalist drive for the creation of value (valorization) which must always grow under capitalism’

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    I don’t thinks it’s impossible. There is some evidence suggesting that happiness and prosperity stops at a certain level of growth, and a continuation of growth yields diminishing returns.

    GDP based economy is both a really strange way of measuring value and even it’s inventor spoke out against using it as a measurement.

    There are some nations that are trying alternative models of measurement, such as the BLI model.