Spiraltree, all great points. As I wrote in my previous posts (inlcuding the Myth of Money and What would it take) - degrowth is not going to be pleasant. All of the problems you named above, unemployment, falling revenues, poverty and so on will be present, and cannot be avoided. What I meant by managed degrowth is not the fairy tale of steady state economics or happy farming but: rapidly dismantling power structures, banks, companies states while developing and teaching people skills they will need for survival. Degrowth can realistically serve one aim only: to prevent mass murder and death on a planetary scale, to reduce pain and suffering as much as possible. With that said, I remain realistic: this will not happen until it is too late.