@dan613 @kawentzmann @gerrymcgovern GDP was a wartime measure, never meant to be an ongoing measure/goal. Correlation is not causation. Degrowth is a method of decoupling poverty from "low GDP" which could mean anything from not enough hospitals to too many (from the perspective of a logging company) intact old-growth forests.
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Dan Neuman
In response to this post@SallyStrange @kawentzmann @gerrymcgovern GDP correlates strongly with poverty. The Gini index measures inequality within a nation. Regardless, degrowth means fewer hours worked to meet lowered needs. Maybe the two will go hand in hand, by everyone working fewer hours, but more likely it means fewer people with jobs, as it always has in the past.
@dan613 @kawentzmann @gerrymcgovern ~shrug~ You already said that. Just testing to see if you'd say anything new.
The accidental degrowth of a recession is not the same thing as planned degrowth. Fewer hours worked, per capita? Of course! That's a feature, not a bug.
Fewer jobs? Questionable, depends on how you define "job" but certainly there will be no shortage of tasks to be completed. Rebuilding cities after they get destroyed by an unprecedented fire hurricane, for example. In any case part of the point is to decouple having a job from surviving. That's how you decouple poverty from "lack of GDP growth".
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