degrowth position on technology is not primitivist but maybe better characterized like an anarchist position towards hierarchy; hierarchy must always rigorously and continuously justify itself; same for technology under degrowth--many technologies if you look closely do not necessarily use less energy or less resources compared to the alternatives, but rather shift those needs around or conceal them more effectively; similarly nor do they necessarily have liberatory potential and may serve only to obscure new exploitative relationships or any liberatory capacity is inequitably distributed and the result of some zero-sum dynamic