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Today, Explained

Blame Capitalism: Degrowing pains

Today, Explained

Vox

Daily News, Politics, News

4.4 • 9.5K Ratings

🗓️ 29 September 2023

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Capitalism isn’t natural, was never inevitable, and endless growth is killing Earth. The final episode of “Blame Capitalism” examines the degrowth movement, whose proponents call to end capitalism as we know it. This episode was produced by Avishay Artsy, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Haleema Shah and Laura Bullard, engineered by David Herman with original music by Jon Ehrens, and hosted by Noel King. Additional editorial support from Jolie Myers and Miranda Kennedy. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained Support Today, Explained by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Good news here. New figures show the economy is growing. China's latest quarterly growth

0:05.9

figures are right and they're better than expected.

0:08.3

Ronda is the third fastest growing economy in the world.

0:12.9

The India growth story is alive and kicking.

0:16.4

It's because of endless growth. We can have all the things we enjoy every day but we don't know

0:24.9

where this growth goes and if it doesn't stop it will cause the strain.

0:34.0

The capitalist capital P philosophy is underpinned by a really simple assumption.

0:39.2

Growth is good but what if it isn't?

0:43.2

You've got a finite planet. It has certain limits. You should listen to those limits.

0:47.6

Coming up on today's explained blame capitalism, we're going to talk de-grumps.

1:00.3

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1:05.6

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1:28.1

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1:38.7

we've been examining how and why so many Americans have turned on capitalism.

1:45.0

24-year-old Adrian Ludice is one of those people. Adrian is a former EMT and a current communist.

1:52.7

Why do you hate capitalism? I mean where do I start? I think that the big thing that got me

1:58.9

because I was an EMT is just the explicit profits over people part and I saw that first hand as a

2:04.5

healthcare provider of where the ones on the truck. Yeah, I was only making 14-50 an hour

2:09.1

while they made billions in profit. And I think that that really just got me of like we see

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