Expanding the economy benefits everyone, but really it's more nuanced. Yes you need (ambient) growth because growth equals change which hopefully you get (good) innovations. But you can have growth down bad paths like cloud slavery and the erosion of machinic/digital ownership so growth for growth sake may be maliciously ignorant without the nuance of what the consumer and product landscape is like. On that alone I'll rebuke growth over equality. You don't want to become a bootloader for a paperclip system of bad innovation and social organization. Ah figures this was written by a 'classical* liberal'.
So growth is good only if it produces outcomes you prefer. Got it.
lol so growth is good no matter if you end up with no digital rights because 'muh freedom'. Got it. Even though there is every indication to suggest that the freedom and liberty being produced isn't absolute and requires not just progress, but ultimately particularity in the landscape (lest you're left with amazon-fed partnership in a surveillance state, an oligopoly of cloud landscape and the elimination of actual property rights since everything becomes leased, and a fed-corpo conglomeracy over just about everything else). So yeah, i guess if I prefer a reasonable outcome, i do have at least that freedom to espouse it. Lame-o.
At least i'm not a slave to megacorps. But if you want to be a blind bootloader, thats on you.