Degrowth, Power, Ownership (and a new Legal Doctrine)

Degrowth can break the oppression of capitalist private ownership.
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References:
Distribution of Household Wealth in the U.S. since 1989
The incredible Volcker disinflation
Limited Liability Company (LLC)

Jason W. Moore and Raj Patel (2017) A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things: A Guide to Capitalism, Nature, and the Future of the Planet, Verso Books.
Quinn Slobodian (2018) Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism, Harvard University Press.

“The core of rentier capitalism includes”:
Brett Christophers (2020) Rentier Capitalism: Who Owns the Economy, and Who Pays for It?, Verso Books.

“Creating wealth is less about making anything and more about simply owning something.”
Javier Moreno Zacarés (2021) ‘Euphoria of the Rentier?’, New Left Review, Vol. 129 (2): 47–67.

“While communities struggled to recover, the S&P 500 gained 13.4 percent per year.”
Ned Davis Research, Charts of the Decade: Fifteen Charts That Tell the Story of the 2010s, 6 January 2020.

“The balance sheets of the world’s largest central banks”
Edward Yardeni and Mali Quintana, ‘Central Banks: Monthly Balance Sheets’, Yardeni Research, Inc., 10 August 2021.

“Corporations took advantage of ultra-low interest rates”
Iñaki Aldasoro, Bryan Hardy, and Nikola Tarashev (2021) ‘Corporate Debt: Post-GFC through the Pandemic’, BIS Quarterly Review, 7 June 2021.

“They are buying back their own shares, they are bringing ownership home.”
Ned Davis Research, 2020.

“It's because in the 19th century corporations were allowed to be treated in a way like people”
Adam Winkler, ‘“Corporations Are People” Is Built on an Incredible 19th-CenturyLie’,The Atlantic, 5 March 2018.

“We when talk about ownership”
David Sirota and Andrew Perez, ‘Blackstone CEO Celebrates “Huge Increases in Rents” as Millions Face Eviction’, Jacobin, 14 December 2020.

“Why is it that in the US, house prices”
Martin Arnold, Colby Smith, and Matthew Rocco, ‘House Prices Climb to Record Levels in US and Europe’, The Financial Times, 22 June 2021.

“Why is it that the value of British real estate”
Office of National Statistics (2018) Statistical Bulletin: Wealth in Great Britain Wave 5: 2014 to 2016.

“Since we are at it, Mr Schwarzman,”
Miranda Hall et al. (2019) Full Fibre Futures, Common Wealth.

Ben Tarnoff (2022) Internet for the People: A Manifesto, Verso Books.

“FAAMG are 25% of S&P 500.”
Nathan Tankus, ‘The Stock Market Is Less Disconnected from the “Real Economy” than You Think’, Notes on the Crises, 24 September 2020.

“monopolization is a feature, not a bug”
Christophers (2020) Rentier Capitalism.

“Abundance is not a technological threshold”
Benanav, Automation and the Future of Work.

“Can we have a greener and kinder capitalism?”

“When Fox News hosts say that”
Matthew Impelli, ‘“Bar Rescue” Host Jon Taffer Likens Unemployment Benefits to “Hungry, Obedient Dogs”’, Newsweek

“We must also give land and stewardship of nature”
David Bray, Leticia Merino, and Deborah Barry (eds) (2005) The Community Forests of Mexico: Managing for Sustainable Landscapes, University of Texas Press.

[Do-U-Know]

great ideas ! alternative visions ... Thx

[kimwelch]

I think all the political and economic philosophers need to start talking to primatologists. Humans are primates. Our economic system (there's really just one), derives from our instinct for organizing around social hierarchies using social status signaling. Wealth is social status signaling. Sometimes it's how many cows you own, sometimes it's what kind of car you drive. The material content of the signal is not important. We draw down far more resources than we actually need because our ability to display excess resources is a social signal of status. You cannot just policy that away. Some animals will always be more equal than others as long as the animals are humans (and chimps, and gorillas, ...).