Jason Hickel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dBy4-6pn1M
He’s very good in very many ways, but he gets trapped into econometric arguments. His critics can point out that people in the global south actually do having rising living standards, even if more is needed in an absolute sense and they remain impoverished in a relative sense. But this kind of discussion misses the main point.
Sure, people all over the world have more and more stuff. But they are increasingly impoverished in regard to the things most relevant to quality-of-life. They may have iPhones, but the global capitalist forces that delivered such have disrupted their lifeways. The latter had been (but no longer are) characterized by simply achieved satisfactions; stable local familiarity; sense of place; peace, trust, and dependability; communitarian support
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Hickel
