@elmyra @gerrymcgovern This is an important point because...

@elmyra @gerrymcgovern This is an important point because there’s a certain faction of degrowthers who will, when you press them on this issue, act like disability and chronic illness are symptoms of capitalism (instead of things that happen regardless of capitalism) and get real cagey about how we ensure that mobility-limited people will get around in a car-free society and diabetics will get insulin, etc.

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Misuse Case

@elmyra @gerrymcgovern Not that I’m against degrowth generally because we have to put up with a lot of junk, pollution, and bullshit with the way things are, but UBI and “doing community care like in ancient times” are not going to substitute for medicine or mobility aids. People need to check their ableism.

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22 February at 12:06 | Open on twit.social

dr elmyra

@MisuseCase @gerrymcgovern yep. And even if a non-zero amount of disability and chronic illness *is* caused by capitalism, any degrowth society is going to have to deal with the soon be billions of people with some form of long covid/ME that it will inherit from capitalism. Unless the plan is to just continue capitalism's eugenics campaign against us...

22 February at 12:31 | Open on wandering.shop

Gerry McGovern

@MisuseCase
These are, of course, huge and critical issues. There's so much work to do to try and set the conditions for a better and more sustainable society.

@elmyra

22 February at 12:42 | Open on mastodon.green

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