I think it's entirely reasonable to aim for growth while having flat or decreasing population, limited resource use, zero or negative carbon use, and lower economic inequality. If nothing else, we should aim for growth in human knowledge and intangible assets.

Human progress: https://ourworldindata.org/a-history-of-global-living-condit...

Wouldn’t shrinking the economy reverse these trends?

Degrowth would increase poverty and infant mortality but it could control so many diseases of affluence like obesity and it would reduce economic inequality. It shares these properties with famine, war and plague.

> would increase poverty and infant mortality but it could control so many diseases of affluence like obesity and it would reduce economic inequality.

Poverty and infant mortality seem worse to me than inequality.

Then you're probably against famine, war and plague too.

Probably. Though if aliens arrive…