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If the prospect of mass unemployment and the infliction of considerable misery on a large portion of the population is considered "the brighter side" then your
by CPLX 8y ago
If the prospect of mass unemployment and the infliction of considerable misery on a large portion of the population is considered "the brighter side" then your argument contains some pretty consequential unstated value judgements.
What, exactly, is the point of commerce in the first place? Is it measured by some abstract efficiency metric or do real life humans figure into your analysis at all? If so, which humans count and which ones don't?
- Karishma1234 8y ago> What, exactly, is the point of commerce in the first place? Very good question. The point of commerce is that people be able to buy other people's time willingly for a rate they voluntarily negotiate. When you can buy someone else's time you save time for your own self to do something that interests you. Everyone time you fill gas in your car you are buying perhaps 0.5 seconds of a guy who chose to work on a Oil rig in Alaska and 1 second of a government servant in Washington DC working for Energy department. As long as people have free time there is never a problem of mass unemployment unless government makes it a crime to work on voluntarily negotiated terms.
- CPLX 8y ago> there is never a problem of mass unemployment Except, of course, there often is.
- Firadeoclus 8y agoYour definition seems to entirely ignore matter. It's not enough for people to have time on their hands, they also somehow need access to the means of production, the physical goods. And enough of them to actually survive.