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if you think about how much of the economy in the imperial core is bullshit degrowth becomes much easier to imagine.
scammers, speculators, rentiers, consultants, crypto, ai, marketing, propagandists, surveillance, weapons development... i feel like we could go on for an hour
ooth 'email jobs' just describe an environment work takes place in, some people in cubicle email jobs are involved in pro-social work, i assume.
on the contrary, liquidating marketers would net the largest decrease in hot air ever seen
emissions are half the equation tho, GDP counts these things and decoupling the idea GDP & the per capita to actual living standards is important for a degrowth conversation. no humans would hurt from the billions lost in 'value' in marketing
Eliminating completely useless sectors frees those people to do things that are actually beneficial to society
But they also don't produce rail, solar panels, food, housing, or clean water. They're completely bullshit jobs that exist to keep the proletariat from having the time and energy to revolt.