Interview: The social economy, a driving force behind an inclusive post-growth society

L’actu ES, 18 September 2024

“I think there is a real anthropological problem underlying our behaviors,” explains Olivier De Schutter, United Nations Special Rapporteur on human rights and extreme poverty since 2020. “Our representation of happiness is that “more is better.” We are guided by this constant search to improve our living conditions, the shortest path of which has become consumption itself—consumption that has become a reward for the work that structures our lives in an era that praises productivity and efficiency.”

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