The premier business school at the world’s leading STEM university has officially adopted confiscatory socialism as its guiding ideology. Because climate.
Speaking at the MIT 2024 Sustainability Summit, Sandrine Dixson-Decèive, co-president of the Club of Rome, resurrected the hoary 1972 “Limits to Growth” screed, whose infamous computer model predictions of environmental and economic catastrophe have held up about as well as forecasts that all the polar bears would be dead by now.
Undeterred by the fact that the last half century has seen both an unprecedented reduction in extreme poverty and a remarkable remediation of actual air and water pollution, “de-growth” is now the most fashionable slogan among global elites. And MIT Sloan School professors don’t want to miss that ticket to Davos.
What do the de-growth Experts™ demand?
- A trillion dollars must be handed over to corrupt despots in underdeveloped countries so they can put their relatives on the “green jobs” payroll.
- High-income countries must cancel the debts of low-income countries so the failed economic policies of said despots can continue impoverishing citizens.
- Taxes must be raised on the rich (a perennial favorite).
- A universal basic “dividend” must be forked over by all gas, oil, and mining companies to be equitably distributed to the proletariat.
- The gender-equity fairy must be empowered to make sure every birthing person goes to work and stops poisoning the planet with carbon-emitting babies.
- Political leaders and activists must empower more trade unions, because labor thuggery is the most reliable source of well-being.
- World governments must act together to impose net-zero and a total phase-out of fossil fuels by 2050.
- The unwashed masses must stop eating meat. You will eat zee bugs, and you will like it!
Thanks Sloan School. You haven’t distinguished yourselves so grandly since your most renowned Nobel Prize winning economist predicted the GDP of the Soviet Union would inevitably outpace that of the U.S.