Abolisyonista on Nostr: Talking to Filipinos about #degrowth is difficult because everyone here begins at the ...

Talking to Filipinos about #degrowth is difficult because everyone here begins at the premise that the country is “underdeveloped.” One person told me that talking about degrowth from the perspective of rural poverty did not make sense because the rural needed development and growth. But what do we actually mean by “growth”? Growth and development means valorization, means creating value and money. If we mean that the rural needs more schools, hospitals, and amenities to improve standards of living, then say that. Because rural poverty is precisely the cause of development, not the lack of it. Value is extracted there in its purest form from the earth, from rent, etc.

We need degrowth precisely because growth and development has impoverished us as so.

#philippines #TootSEA