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1. ramraj+(OP)[view] [source] 2023-07-27 07:27:23
More fundamentally I’m not convinced that we are not in a zero sum game as seems to be assumed under all economic theory.
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2. imtrin+j[view] [source] 2023-07-27 07:30:25
>>ramraj+(OP)
Entropy is inherently a zero sum game. We have a given level of energy reserves and all we do is transform what we have into a different form.

Economists confuse an increase in the extraction rate as some kind of "creating something from nothing" but actually a better analogy is "traveling to previously unreachable places".

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