Degrowth

1233 readers

1 users here now

Discussions about degrowth and all sorts of related topics. This includes UBI, economic democracy, the economics of green technologies, enviromental legislation and many more intressting economic topics.

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

MrMakabar@slrpnk.net

660

Innovation makes useful things smaller - overconsumption makes them bigger and more meaningless (norden.social)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by MrMakabar@slrpnk.net to c/degrowth@slrpnk.net

120 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Source: https://norden.social/@hart/112513927064083221

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] zout@fedia.io 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

In 1984 the smallest Volkswagen was the Polo, weighing 685 kg. Now it is the Up, weighing 991 kg. That's 45% more weight. Now you specifically didn't mention weight, but all that weight has to go somewhere, especially considering most materials mostly got lighter.