You can't extricate austerity from degrowth. The people who have the power to implement it aren't going to be the ones sacrificing, and currently that's capital and nobody else. Degrowth means reduction in the standard of living of the majority of people.https://twitter.com/curaffairs/status/1179177251725873152 …
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Imagine how nice life would be if we all had AC, fridges, net-connected computers, free education, effective mass transit and we worked fewer hours. Would take a significant amount of extraction to get there, but it would be a better world, and it's one that capital can't make.
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fetishizing arguments of the moral position of poverty forgets that desperate people pick another's pocket without wasting breath on moral arguments.
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