20 Reasons Why Economic Growth is a Foolish Idea (Slowdown or Perish! Part 1/2)

Focusing on economic growth as a measure of wellbeing for humans is a stupid idea. #degrowth
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00:00 Intro
01:00 #1 Growth has shackled our imagination
02:17 #2 Growth measures not what truly matters
03:23 #3 Growth is blind
04:48 #4 Growth does not care about quality
05:32 #5 Growth does not measure wealth, but agitation
06:36 #6 Growth is monomaniacal
08:07 #7 Growth cannot be decoupled from nature
09:26 #8 Growth creates rebound effects
10:26 #9 Growth creates bad incentives for innovation
11:46 #10 Growth does not care about social reproduction
13:02 #11 Growth is at war with sleep
13:57 #12 Growth does not save us time
15:10 #13 Growth is dispossession by accumulation
16:22 #14 Growth is not always progress
17:14 #15 Growth corrupts human connections
18:05 #16 Growth corrupts the social fabric
19:26 #17 Growth has made us poorer, not richer
20:20 #18 Growth has ruined work
21:32 #19 Growth has ruined quality of life
22:40 #20 Growth has ruined language

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