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The Radical Plan to Save the Planet by Working Less: The degrowth movement wants to shrink the economy to address climate change, and create lives with less stuff, less work, and better well-being. (www.vice.com)
submitted 3 years ago by [M] to c/simpleliving@lemmy.ml
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[–] 34 points 3 years ago (8 children)

This will go the same way the "Green New Deal" did. It will scare the ruling class, the ruling class will send its media minions to demonize it, and nothing will change. doomer

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  • [–] 14 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    no actually, you forgot the final step of "loudly and blindly double down"

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  • [–] 9 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    But, muh IPhone 32 ?

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  • [–] 9 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    But the phone is 5% lighter this time!

    ... and will be replaced in a year this-is-fine

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    If the phone were 5% lighter that would be an actual improvement. Instead phones get heavier and thinner and bigger. So overall the experience diminishes as they try to be tablets.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Even if it was 5% lighter throwing the damn thing away every year is so much e-waste.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago

    No disagreement there. But a problem with modern consumer electronics is that they AREN'T ACTUALLY BETTER then last year's model. Sure you can talk about pixel density etc, but that was actually a solved problem almost 10 years ago. Apple called it a "retna" display. They idea is that at a certain pixel density and screen size, there is no benefit to adding more . But capitalism always requires more, so since you can't add pixels, you have to add screen space. But the iphone was already designed to be used one handed. People's hands haven't grown in the past 10 years, so why are they making the phones bigger which makes it a worse user experience?

    Anyway, I dont' want to derail into phone chat. but I'll say that if they did actually start making lighter phones with the same battery life, I wouldn't consider that an actual improvement to that space, but that isn't what is happening :/

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