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@@ -262,12 +262,11 @@ classifies as quarter of UK households as having 'low financial resilience' and
 estimates that barely half have enough cash to make it 3 months without
 borrowing if their main source of income were cut off [@financial-lives-2024].
 
-For many, the prospect of 'buying less' is not 'liberating,' it's the gaping
-fear of an empty stomach or the knock of the debt collector. It's hardly
-surprising that the de-growth movement has remained largely academic, with
-little impact on politics, and indeed a vague grasp on what de-growth policy
-would actually mean in practice or who you could possibly convince to make it
-happen. [@vansintjan-2019; @cosme-2017]
+For many, the call to 'buy less' is not 'liberating,' because it's the call of
+the bailiff. It's hardly surprising that the de-growth movement has
+remained largely academic, with little impact on politics, and indeed a vague
+grasp on what de-growth policy would actually mean in practice or who you could
+possibly convince to make it happen. [@vansintjan-2019; @cosme-2017]
 
 A little better is proposing market-based policies like carbon taxes. But there
 is no credible route to implementing and sustaining an effective carbon tax,