inasabaThe Radical Plan to Save the Planet by Working Less: The degrowth movement wants to shrink the economy to address climate change, and create lives with less stuff, less work, and better well-being.
Eh, humans are hardwired to acquire stuff. This will never catch on. It’d be cool if it did. But it won’t.
Human nature is sculpted and shaped by the material conditions around you, it’s not something immutable and forever the same.
If a society is built around endless accumulation then of course it would be considered only natural to most.
After all, if you were born and lived your whole life in a coal mine, you’d say it’s human nature to cough.