Reimagining Capitalism: Dissatisfaction and the Call for Change

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This chapter discusses the dissatisfaction with capitalism and the idea that capitalism should be seen as a temporary phase in history. It explores potential ideas and policies from the degrowth movement, such as legislating an end to planned obsolescence, cutting advertising to reduce unnecessary consumption, shifting from ownership to user-ship, and shrinking the emissions-heavy beef industry. The chapter also raises the question of whether companies would be willing to adopt these changes and showcases Tim Jackson's optimistic perspective on the possibility of corporate transformation.

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.

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