# Prosperopedia: Mapping biz lang to post-growth terminology **URL:** \ **Category:** đź’ˇ Ideation\ **Tags:** idea\ **Created:** [November 9, 2022, 10:58am UTC](https://discuss.coding.social/t/prosperopedia-mapping-biz-lang-to-post-growth-terminology/194 "2022-11-09T10:58:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
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Investopedia is a well-known website that explains the concepts of an inherently unsustainable economic model of Hypercapitalism to folks who like to slam those words in pursuit of wealth and power. [https://www.investopedia.com/](https://www.investopedia.com/) ## Post-growth Post-growth encompasses everything that looks beyond the hypercapitalist madness. It needs its own language and terminology. Many concepts are already well-define, but need to be searched on the web for their best definition. We can do better, to give an extra nudge to the movement. > **[Post-growth](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-growth)** > > Post-growth is an umbrella term that refers to a broad family of economic, ecological, and political perspectives responding to the limits-to-growth dilemma—the recognition that infinite economic growth is biophysically unsustainable on a finite planet. Central to post-growth thinking is the shift of the focus out of GDP growth as the main goal of the economy. Instead, well-being becomes the main objective. Post-growth puts emphasis on decoupling societal well-being from econ Scholars define post... ## Prosperopedia Prosperopedia is an Investopedia for a post-growth world. It should be crowdsourced and be curated for quality. Crowdsourcing somewhat similar to the Urban Dictionary: > **[Urban Dictionary, October 13: swamp dog](https://www.urbandictionary.com/)** > > A US deep south term for an alligator. Usually used in the Cajun dialect. And then adding proper curation on top of that.. Offered as a website, or even a federated service.