Comment by constantcrying

Believing in growth just means believing that the future will be better than the past.

And believing this, is the single thing keeping the entire world running.

Germany is currently ruining itself because its stagnating economy means that it can not keep up with the rising costs for its pension system and has to increasingly raise more funds from a smaller, population which is seeing little productivity gains.

>Degrowth, on the other hand, would directly reduce those externalities; and, if imposed via progressive taxation, would have further societal benefits via funded programs.

Do you think that Germany will have social benefits at all, when the auto industry collapses. Where is the money coming from?

Economic growth has enabled mass literacy. It has created industrial agriculture, which eliminated hunger for economic reasons in all countries which practice it. Degrowth means turning our back on the single process which caused the greatest increase in human quality of life.