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#postgrowth

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Thilo

The UN reports what scientists have known for decades: fertility rates are collapsing worldwide.

It’s not the economy, stupid. And it’s not microplastics, silly.
Fertility collapse is a predictable response: populations adapt reproduction rates when survival prospects fall.
It’s not ideology — it’s biology.

🌍🧬 [New blog post](eduzen.bearblog.dev/the-law-be)

educationZENThe Law Beneath All Laws: Why Global Fertility Collapse Can’t Be Legislated Away But no parliament, president, or pope can legislate around this. No policy, no tax credit, no cultural campaign will fix it — It is biological. It is e...
#FertilityCollapse#Demography#ClimateCrisis
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Thilo

@makeinplace I've been exploring similar ideas around rethinking the product lifecycle in a post growth economy. By prioritizing sustainability and circularity, we can create systems that meet real needs without perpetuating waste. Check out my latest blog post for more thoughts on this:

eduzen.bearblog.dev/rethinking

Excited to see the work being done at @makeinplace and looking forward to contributing to the open knowledge bank!

educationZENRethinking the Product Lifecycle: How Post-Growth Economics Can Enable a Viable UBI In a post-growth economy, the traditional product lifecycle is reimagined to prioritize sustainability and circularity. This new approach encourages compa...
#postgrowth#DoughnutEconomics#regenerativedesign
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Thilo

Three months ago, I thought post-growth economics was about giving things up. Now I see it's about holding on — to what truly matters.

🌱 From utopia-writing to blueprint-building: I’ve published a piece on how I changed my hopes about progress, tech, and civilization’s future.

Here is the piece:
🔗 eduzen.bearblog.dev/from-utopi

Let’s talk:
#PostGrowth #Degrowth #Scarcity #Abundance #Commons #DoughnutEconomics #MastodonFutures

educationZENFrom Utopia to Blueprint: How I Discovered Post-Growth Economics Is Within Reach Three months ago, I thought the most meaningful contribution I could make with my knowledge was to imagine a better world — to write the utopia for the th...
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cəci

Yesterday I participated to #TransizioniFest in Airuno (LC, Italy), representing the rather new Italian Post-Growth Platform. We brought an interactive game by DISNOVATION.ORG, fittingly called the Post-Growth Toolkit:

Platform decrescitafelice.it/2024/09/po

Game postgrowth.art/pages/the-game.

And it was cool!!! The toolkit was originally not available in Italian, but it's covered by CC licence so we could translate and adapt it. We also added a more interactive part at the end, where participants could have drawn, played or illustrated their conclusions with movement. In the end, no one chose the creative options :D they were too caught up in discussions, but I guess that's a win too.

You should check it out if you're looking for interactive but content-packed stuff on #degrowth #postgrowth or #politicalecology

Picture shows the post-growth toolkit, including a game board, black cards with key post-growth concepts, and instructions
example of the black cards with key post-growth concepts
The picture shows some of the participants while doing the activity. They're sitting at a long table with the papers and cards of the post-growth toolkit.
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Thilo

🎮 Valve is a rare post-growth unicorn: no venture capital, no quarterly pressure — just sustainable growth and a thriving creative commons.
But what happens when GabeN leaves the scene? Can it stay true to its values?

🧠 Do you know other privately held near-monopolies that resist the corporate drift?

✍️ eduzen.bearblog.dev/valve-the-

educationZEN🎮 Valve: The Post-Growth Unicorn — Growing the Commons, Playing the Long GameValve is a rare beast: a privately held company that grows slowly and organically, without the artificial boost of outside capital. They nurture a commons of...
#PostGrowth#DeGrowth#Valve
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Topi-Matti Heikkola

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Outlines of an industrial policy programme in the current European politico-economical landscape, for those who take a sustainable ecosocial transformation seriously.

No mainstream sustainability wishful thinking - but real analysis with depth, power, politics and ingenuity.

What Bärnthaler, Mang and Hickel set out to do in their new article is remarkable. And in my judgement the result is exceptionally interesting and inspiring.

zenodo.org/records/15529759

ZenodoToward a post-growth industrial policy for Europe: navigating emerging tensions and long-term goalsAmid mounting geopolitical, socio-economic, and ecological crises, industrial policy has returned to the forefront of policy debates. However, the EU’s industrial policy framework – centred on Single Market Resilience, Strategic Autonomy, and Competitive Sustainability – contains self-undermining contradictions. While aiming for resilience, it fails to strengthen foundational non-market institutions; in seeking strategic autonomy, it exacerbates resource dependencies and eco-imperialist tensions; and in promoting competitive sustainability, it remains reliant on profit-driven private sector strategies that delay necessary transitions. This article critically examines these contradictions using immanent critique and conjunctural analysis, proposing an alternative post-growth framework based on Foundational Liveability, Peaceful Planetary Co-Existence, and Democratically Coordinated Sustainability. To bridge the gap between current constraints and transformative change, we use critical problem-solving to outline contested but feasible next best transition steps within the current politico-economic order. By integrating post-growth insights into industrial policy, this article offers a roadmap for aligning economic activity with planetary boundaries and social well-being.
#IndustrialPolicy#PostGrowth
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Thilo

🌍 Commons, Not Conglomerates
Taxation can guide, not punish. Steuern steuern.

🏢 Proprietary IP → high tax
🧩 Permissive FLOSS → moderate tax
🔄 Copyleft/commons → near-zero tax + public support

And when you share while alive, society buys your freedom — castles, cars, and all.

This is the give economy.
Not charity. Incentivized solidarity.

🔗 Read the full post: eduzen.bearblog.dev/commons-no

educationZEN🌍 Commons, Not Conglomerates:  Variable Taxation as a Guide Toward Communal StewardshipIn a post-growth economy, we don’t abolish value — we redirect it. And one of the most powerful tools to do that is already in our hands: taxation. Not a...
#GiveEconomy#CommonsTransition#Copyleft
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Thilo

🧬 Inheritance is where private accumulation meets public consequence.

What if IP and means of production were returned to the commons — not sold off, but passed on?

In my latest blog, I argue for a 100% inheritance tax on IP/assets as a humanist default, not a punitive exception.

🛠️ Value is co-created. Let it circulate.

Read more → eduzen.bearblog.dev/inheritanc

educationZEN🧬 Inheritance as a Political Act💬 This post is a follow-up to "". Inheritance is where private accumulation meets public consequence. In a post-growth, workshop-based society, a 100% i...
#PostGrowth#Commons#Inheritance
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Thilo

🌱 What if our future economy was a global workshop — open, resilient, and built on shared knowledge?

My latest blog explores the post-growth product lifecycle and why releasing IP to the commons isn’t utopia — it’s already happening, with projects like Mikrokopter paving the way.

🛠️ Modular design, local repair & open collaboration form a just-in-time, just-enough workshop economy.

Read more → eduzen.bearblog.dev/made-to-or

educationZEN🛠️ Made to Order, Made to Last: The Workshop Economy After GrowthIn the shadow of the Unimog that could have been, we begin to glimpse what a mature, sustainable economy might look like — not one driven by quarterly earnin...
#PostGrowth#CircularEconomy#OpenSource
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