Every time you read, write or begin to say the phrase “economic growth”, swap it out for the phrase “economic activity”. It will cause you to think differently about what is being suggested. You’ll ask: economic activity involving whom, using what, doing what, to create what, to achieve what, for whom, and why?
These are questions we don’t ask when we hear “economic growth” because that’s a phrase loaded with assumptions—that it’s natural and good and necessary—which dissuade us from interrogating what’s really being proposed.
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