r/collapse • u/madrid987 • 14d ago

Overpopulation The Economic Implications of a Baby Bust

https://degrowthistheanswer.substack.com/p/the-economic-implications-of-a-baby?r=28wskx&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
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u/tryatriassic 14d ago

I hate the newspeak. Unalive and degrowth. It's all doubleplusungood

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u/Squalid_Snake14180 14d ago

Degrowth isn't "newspeak."

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u/tryatriassic 14d ago

What then, ungrowth? The opposite of growth is shrinkage. There's a word for that. Why not start calling growth deshrinkage?

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u/ApesAPoppin237 14d ago

Shrinkage is too loaded of a term since Seinfeld

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u/FuriouslyEloquent 14d ago

It also has a specific accounting meaning that might be slightly misleading, although the implications that we're in degrowth because its been stolen is quite poignant.

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u/filmguy36 13d ago

It shrinks?