Growing Pains [Rebroadcast]

Given a real choice, people everywhere would take a shorter work week over bigger salaries, consume less to live more and seek mutual flourishing rather than plunder their natural resources, says economic anthropologist Jason Hickel. In our final replay of the winter break, we revisit his idea of “degrowth.” Hickel says the core tenet of capitalism — insatiable expansion — is holding humanity hostage. And if we don’t fix that, he argues, we won’t save the planet, never mind democracy.