The process of de-development proposed by Jason Hickel involves allowing wealthy countries and classes to consume less so that poorer countries and classes can improve their standard of living. De-development moves the focus from economic growth to life expectancy and happiness. Hickel argues that traditional development frameworks have failed to reduce poverty and inequality over the past 70 years as growth has primarily benefited the wealthy. He proposes that rich countries should "de-develop" or "catch down" by reducing overconsumption to alleviate pressure on global resources and allow poorer countries to "catch up" economically and socially. The goal is ending poverty by changing rules to redistribute resources in a sustainable manner rather than continually pursuing unlimited economic growth.
The process of de-development proposed by Jason Hickel involves allowing wealthy countries and classes to consume less so that poorer countries and classes can improve their standard of living. De-development moves the focus from economic growth to life expectancy and happiness. Hickel argues that traditional development frameworks have failed to reduce poverty and inequality over the past 70 years as growth has primarily benefited the wealthy. He proposes that rich countries should "de-develop" or "catch down" by reducing overconsumption to alleviate pressure on global resources and allow poorer countries to "catch up" economically and socially. The goal is ending poverty by changing rules to redistribute resources in a sustainable manner rather than continually pursuing unlimited economic growth.
The process of de-development proposed by Jason Hickel involves allowing wealthy countries and classes to consume less so that poorer countries and classes can improve their standard of living. De-development moves the focus from economic growth to life expectancy and happiness. Hickel argues that traditional development frameworks have failed to reduce poverty and inequality over the past 70 years as growth has primarily benefited the wealthy. He proposes that rich countries should "de-develop" or "catch down" by reducing overconsumption to alleviate pressure on global resources and allow poorer countries to "catch up" economically and socially. The goal is ending poverty by changing rules to redistribute resources in a sustainable manner rather than continually pursuing unlimited economic growth.
The process of de-development proposed by Jason Hickel involves allowing wealthy countries and classes to consume less so that poorer countries and classes can improve their standard of living. De-development moves the focus from economic growth to life expectancy and happiness. Hickel argues that traditional development frameworks have failed to reduce poverty and inequality over the past 70 years as growth has primarily benefited the wealthy. He proposes that rich countries should "de-develop" or "catch down" by reducing overconsumption to alleviate pressure on global resources and allow poorer countries to "catch up" economically and socially. The goal is ending poverty by changing rules to redistribute resources in a sustainable manner rather than continually pursuing unlimited economic growth.
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The process of allowing the higher class of society to slow down and allowing the lower class to
catch up is the framework of de-development. This doesn't mean making a wealthy man poor but decreasing their use of wealth. Their use of resources is about 8 hectares, just as in the United States, but in the country of Ghana, it is only 1.8, which is about the amount one should have in a de-developing state. The de-developing framework is about moving the principle of development from economic growth to life expectancy and happiness. Growth has been the basis of progress for the past 70 years. We should look at communities where people live long and comfortable lives at relatively low levels of income and consumption as indicators of productive life, not as basket cases that need to be transformed into Western models. De- Developing is all about capturing the growth in one country down to poor or de-cutting, happiness depends on contentment, not on money. The traditional framework's main goal is “growth” to make development and bring prosperity to the lives of people living in the society in the past seventy years. Even though the global economy in 1890 did grow by 380%, unfortunately, the only people who benefited are those who belong to the upper class while those who live in poverty continue to suffer. In short focusing on growth making the wealthy people richer while poor people can’t progress their status in this society. While the de-development framework by Jason Hickel, rich countries should “de-develop or catch down” to give way for poverty-stricken countries. In order to catch down, people should consider quality over quantity and avoid overconsumption in rich countries that can lead to a global crisis in the long run. This concludes that the traditional framework is not working anymore because we have grown already, and we need a different solution to attack the main problem by de-developing. According to Jason Hickel, we can end poverty by changing the rules of the global economy where he emphasize that rich countries de-develop is a way of pushing poor countries to “catch-up” with rich ones, they should be getting rich countries to “catch-down”. In other words, the main indicator of development which is growth isn’t the option anymore because we’ve already grown too much. Overconsumption in rich countries is one of the global crises which also give the reason why growth is no longer an option for the development of poor countries because it tends to blowing past our planetary boundaries at breakneck speed. Moreover, Hickel believes that in order to poor countries to catch up with them and stop moving forward which can result into widening the gap between them. This summarizes that Jason Hickel wants to eradicate poverty thru rich countries can de-develop by reducing their consumption. In other words, rich countries can “de-develop” by sticking to quality over quantity.
