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I disagree with a good bit of this, though it's a million times better than some super liberal stuff.
I guess here is as good a place as anywhere, but I always find it super interesting how alienation is treated. Alienation was something which Marx wrote about early in his life, and people say 'he didn't develop the idea', but I always read it as something which developed into other core ideas: commodity fetishization and exploitation. Alienation is a generic term for the specific relations to production, with commodity fetishization being from the perspective of consumption and exploitation from the perspective of production.
There are many points in the article that one can criticize, especially the implementation part prompting the author to describe degrowth as viable option (which I consider a social democrat capitalism-lite way of solving the problem)
But overall, it's a good and accurate critique of capitalism's symptoms on individuals and society as a whole.
I think degrowth as a way of setting strategic priorities in socialism is fine, but using it as a strategy to become socialist is idealist nonsense, for sure