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One of the biggest problems with so-called degrowth is that the sort of people who want to degrow the economy don't want to degrow the largest part of the economy, the government. In spite of being up to 60% of the economy of some Western nations, and in spite of in some countries all economic growth being concentrated in the government, the idea of drastically reducing the size of government to reduce growth in the broader economy is a sacred cow that they are not willing to touch.

Given orthodox economic theory, that's sort of absurd because every dollar cut from the government is going to be several dollars cut from the real economy.