This is going to blow your mind, but average household appliances only cost a fortune when you’re buying them in a place that expects you to spend a fortune. None of this actually costs much money to produce anymore, so no, restricting unlimited growth isn’t going to force you to get a washboard and bucket to do your laundry.

I would challenge you to go visit average towns in places like Indonesia, India, Philippines and look at how everyone has a phone, a computer, televisions and microwaves.

Yes, clean water and even consistent electricity is always a struggle, but again, these places are poor as shit, but they have the things we depend on for our modern lifestyles, and your image of what worldwide poverty looks like is massively biased by capital who wants you to fear being without it. It’s like an abusive partner who makes you think you’ll never do better than them.

Imagine if the US or UK, places with incredible wealth, resources and infrastructure, were to give people their basic needs, AND offer clean water and health care.