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Written by Adam Greenfield on 2024-08-28 at 11:47

One reason I think consensual #degrowth will be very difficult to achieve is the absolute combinatorial explosion of expressive possibility we can now see in virtually every domain of design, development and production, from beer to bikes to fashion.

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Written by Adam Greenfield on 2024-08-28 at 11:51

This is orthogonal to, but obviously geared to, late capitalism’s voracious need for new markets and new regimes of extension.

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Written by Scott Matter on 2024-08-28 at 11:50

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There’s expressive possibility, and there’s the weaponization of consumption as a solution for dissatisfaction. Given how industrial production and capitalism’s growth at all costs imperative have colonized our cultures, I’m not sure how we graceful, delicately, and urgently untangle this.

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Written by Aleksander on 2024-08-28 at 12:03

@adamgreenfield Non-consensual though - simple! We just carry on as is

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Written by metalfabs on 2024-08-28 at 13:12

@adamgreenfield I'm not so sure about that. Consider how after prohibition in the USA, beer was reduced to a yellow, bland commodity. Then craft brewing dug up old recipes and made new ones, eating into market share with variety. I could see a shrinking economy that still can produce variety, while capitalism tends to homogenize everything and centralize into monopoly. Like how a supermarket tomato is watery and thick-skinned so it can be trucked a thousand kilometers.

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