The IMF is now worried global financial stability might collapse under geopolitical shocks, war, and (checks notes) tariffs.
Their solution? “Strong buffers.”
Our reality? A financial system that needs constant CPR.
Maybe it’s time to stop patching up a broken engine.
Maybe it’s time to build one that runs on sanity, sufficiency, and stability.
SuMSy. Not utopia. Just an economy that makes sense.
@witchescauldron
OK, you post on this stuff almost as frequently as a clock chimes, more often than the cockerel crows. We'll bite seeing as it's full moon and allegedly the best time for sowing seeds.
• Where are your audience, who are your #sheeple? Most will be blithely hopping in and out of the various walled gardens, so how are they to discover, or be persuaded to, the joys of the #OpenWeb; that it's the (non-cancerous) #growth (aka #PostGrowth / #Degrowth) they're truly looking for? How are they to be converted into disciples and evangelists?
° From the opposite POV, what sort of #silo are you going to build for your composting needs. The sort of open skip that other people will opportunistically fill up rapidly with all sorts of shit and trash? And will you be relying on the rakes, forks and shovels of a huge team of mods? How will they be onboarded? Or a pay-what-you-can-or-will model where people can post all their shit until moved on?
• And with respect to your pitch for the #OMN, just as inevitably, as the Esther Dysons of this word can never be unheard saying, "Does it even scale?"
Would merrily go off on further tangents on the Peertube/Youtube dilemmas, what is to be done with an anarcho-silo like Kolektiva, and so on, but hey there's other nettles to be scythed. Does it all go into the mix and get broken down into some lovely fluffy and friable rich humus in the end?
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#compost #shitposting
What We Care For—CUSP Spring newsletter is live now. In this edition: the launch of #TheCareEconomy in multiple languages, new papers on democratic renewal, youth wellbeing, and #postgrowth macroeconomics, plus a policy intervention in The Lancet.
→ https://share.sender.net/campaigns/aybD/what-we-care-for-cusp-newsletter-april-2025
cc #degrowth #ÖkonomieDerFürsorge #PostWachstum #WellbeingEconomy
@dajb been installing Mint in various #obsolete machines (Surface Go, 2012 MBP). Maybe a stereotype … maybe the future? #PostGrowth ? #eWaste revival? Also writing more experiments as desktop apps not webpages too.
Can someone put me right here? Growth only matters if there is inflation right?
Human creativity is born of constraints around satisficing? We get good things by struggling, learning and creating. Not by waiting for growth to supply?
#PostGrowth as an economic future where we flourish because we don’t seek to be pointlessly rich in a the service of more growth, we seek to love what we have and reduce the burden that comes from what we don’t need?
Post-growth technology cooperatives.
What do we think?
We are asked to work post-growth (do more with less) in tech now. A cooperative is, possibly, a good model for organising the work in an equitable way.
Companies can’t hire tech workers because tech workers only work for organisations that support them equitably. So, tech becomes outsourced to a cooperative which would have much more power as the company can’t squeeze itself internally.
Trust, grief, and the courage to let go…Capitalism is unraveling—so what comes next?
Read Emilia Zenzile Roig’s powerful take on why we don’t need a blueprint for the future to step into it: https://medium.com/postgrowth/heres-what-s-coming-after-capitalism-54ff7c7fccc5?source=friends_link&sk=d3aee971a3f505f709a97c7c0f80b480
On Tues 18 March, we hosted a pre-release launch event for #TheCareEconomy at the London Review Bookshop. Author @ProfTimJackson was joined by Sir Sam Everington, Sir Michael Dixon and Zoe Williams for a rich and wide-ranging discussion. Full video via 
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cc #PostGrowth #ProsperityWithoutGrowth #BeyondGrowth #Degrowth #ÖkonomieDerFürsorge #WellbeingEconomy #CareEconomy
#Postwachstum #Omgroei #Decroissance #Decrecimiento #SystemChange #BigFood #BigPharma
Este sábado 29 de marzo pola mañá teremos a XUNTANZA DE PRIMAVERA da base social de ESF no Anceu Coliving (https://anceu.com/).
Pola tarde, con entrada libre, coa xente de #ruralhackers organizaremos un Repair Café na Casa do Pobo, ao que tamén virá o grupo #PostGrowth Lab da Universidade de Vigo a falarnos sobre o dereito a reparar.
Inscrición de balde aquí: https://usem.liberaforms.org/asemblea-esf-primavera-2025
As the social-ecological crisis reveals the deep flaws of our current economic systems, we must explore bold alternatives. On April 2nd, I’ll be presenting at an INDEP online talk, where we introduce our latest scientific model—an integrated framework uniting economic, ecological, and social dimensions.
#SystemChange #CircularEconomy #EcologicalEconomics #SustainabilityScience #PostGrowth #EconomicPlanning
O sábado 29 de marzo de 16:00 a 20:00 organizamos un #RepairCafé entre @ESFGalicia e #RuralHackers na Casa do Pobo de #Anceu. Tamén virá a xente do #Postgrowth Innovation Lab da UVigo a falarnos de dereito a arranxar mentres nos tomamos un chocolate quente. Vémonos!
The PGA is a solidarity hub and cooperative #socialmedia service for aligned groups hosted by the Post Growth Institute. We’re excited to welcome nearly 30 organizations building worlds beyond capitalism.
“Hack the algorithm” and take back your feed with two simple steps:
A sustainable welfare deal for a #postgrowth #Europe: A new blog on my Journal of Common Market Studies annual lecture in Lyon. https://jcms.ideasoneurope.eu/2025/03/18/a-sustainable-welfare-deal-for-a-postgrowth-europe/
“No political mantra, no tech-bro fantasy, no alluring macroeconomic ideology has stemmed the persistent decline of #EconomicGrowth. Let alone reversed it. To all intents and purposes, we are already living in a #postgrowth world…It may seem unthinkable, but what we need is a chancellor who is prepared to declare that the emperor is naked. That the god of growth is no longer listening to our prayers.”—@ProfTimJackson for
The New Statesman
→ https://www.newstatesman.com/spotlight/economic-growth/2025/03/calling-for-growth-is-not-the-same-as-delivering-it #SpringBudget #TheCareEconomy
Cómo colapsar sabiamente... y con justicia ecosocial (Esther Oliver) https://www.15-15-15.org/webzine/2025/03/14/como-colapsar-sabiamente-con-justicia-ecosocial/ #colapso #colonialismo #pueblosindigenas #buenavida #derechoambiental #colapsarmejor #postgrowth
Keep money circulating in our communities — without creating new currencies 
When politicians tell us to focus on growth we need to ask: ‘Why, and for whom?’—Rowan Williams, patron of the CUSP 𝘕𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘗𝘳𝘰𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘋𝘪𝘢𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘶𝘦, in #TheGuardian → https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/08/growth-politics-public-good-society-rowan-williams
cc @ProfTimJackson #PostGrowth #Degrowth #WellbeingEconomy #ProsperityWithoutGrowth
Nourish inclusive community wellbeing and nature, not destructive private wealth.
“When politicians tell us to focus on growth we need to ask: ‘Why, & for whom?’ Isolate growth from public good & you are simply planning for breakdown. A resilient society should be rooted in wellbeing, not wealth“
Hi #sciencemastadon, just migrated to social.edu.nl. A re-introduction: I'm a researcher working at Wageningen University and Research (#wur), studying the #ecology of #marinemammals (mostly #seals) in the Netherlands or #arctic, analysing #spatial distribution and #habitat selection based on #wildlife #tracking or #drone/ #uav/ #satellite data using #rstats
Also interested in human #behavioural ecology and alternative economic systems like #degrowth/ #postgrowth
Below movie of our research
