The eternal question: How do you convince people in rich countries to downscale their consumption, voluntarily? Pause, then reframe the question: How does any moral progress happen in history? - ThreadSky

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degrowth.bsky.social • 20 days ago

The eternal question: How do you convince people in rich countries to downscale their consumption, voluntarily?
Pause, then reframe the question:
How does any moral progress happen in history?

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dansturges.bsky.social•20 days ago

You help people see that who they were born as, and into which environment is 100% luck, or totally unlucky, or something in between. Anyone’s $$$ success at some level is based on winning the “Birth Lottery”

degrowth.bsky.social•20 days ago

Unfortunately many people do not see “luck” as a strong moral argument to override the deservingness argument. “I was lucky, so what, I’m still going to keep my lifestyle, that’s just how nature and life works”, so they say.
The rebuttal may come from consequentialism with emphasis on empathy.

degrowth.bsky.social•20 days ago

How did humans accept that the following were all wrong: slavery, child labour, marriage inequality, no minimum wage, no universal suffrage, no animal rights?

degrowth.bsky.social•20 days ago

Cultural and behavioural change happen through endless battles of stories, power of argument, and some historical luck.
Is it worth trying for change?
Yes, always, there is no other choice. This is the mission of degrowth.

ollikr.bsky.social•20 days ago

Telling stories and asking questions is vital. For example, would it be ok if I went to the local supermarket and took all the food and hoarded it, or even worse, let it go to waste? No? Then why is it ok that I can hoard or waste millions or even billions of dollars and withhold them from society?

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