Sublime

Glimpses of a future

A more holistic way of thinking about growth is to recognise that it is broadly equivalent to the rate at which our economy is metabolising the living world.

Colonialism 2.0

Poor countries don’t need our aid; they need us to stop impoverishing them.

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global economy is structured around growth — the idea that firms, industries and nations must increase production every year, regardless of whether it is needed. 

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a similar battle playing out for our time, a colonization of the self by capitalist ideas of productivity and efficiency.

the claims about the putative relationship between growth and human progress are just an alibi. Of course, they hope that growth will end up improving the incomes of the poor, and in so doing pacify social conflict. After all, elite accumulation is more politically palatable if the incomes of the poor are rising too. But this strategy cannot be sus