Morgan ⚧️Dec 23
Dear conservatives and moderates:
I don't want *me* to have healthcare and food and shelter without working.
I want *you* to have healthcare and food and shelter, regardless of your ability to work. I want *everyone* to have that, regardless of our ability to work. And I *want* to work, alongside you and anyone else who can, to build and maintain the kind of society where we all have those rights. It was never about not wanting to work. It's about not wanting anyone to suffer.
Show threadMorgan ⚧️Dec 23

The amount of labor required to:
- feed everyone
- clothe everyone
- shelter everyone
- keep spaces clean
- give everyone adequate healthcare
- raise every child well
- give everyone who wants it education
- produce infrastructure like transportation and communication

Does NOT exceed the amount of labor that can be done (in less than 40hr/week) by:
- everyone who's currently working and can continue
- everyone who's seeking a job
- every stay at home parent or homemaker
- unemployed capitalists

Show threadEarthworm 🐌

@raphaelmorgan

Science approves your argument!  

"How much growth is required to achieve good lives for all? Insights from needs-based analysis"
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2452292924000493

Spoiler: "Provisioning decent living standards (DLS) for 8.5 billion people would require only 30% of current global resource and energy use, leaving a substantial surplus for additional consumption, public luxury, scientific advancement, and other social investments."

#sufficiency #degrowth

How much growth is required to achieve good lives for all? Insights from needs-based analysis

Some narratives in international development hold that ending poverty and achieving good lives for all will require every country to reach the levels …

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