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Quick & inadequate worktime response: I believe the 'economy' to be a myth: I don't think it represents a defensible system delimitation, as it abstracts too f
by crispinb 8y ago
Quick & inadequate worktime response:
I believe the 'economy' to be a myth: I don't think it represents a defensible system delimitation, as it abstracts too far from the real systems it's embedded within.
The real (physical, chemical, biological) processes that have gone on during the last two centuries are not 'growth' in any way that respects the meaning of the term. They constitute an increase in entropy in our ecologies: evolved complex systems are broken down to feed simple technological ones. That process can be considered 'growth' only by mentally excising most of the systems involved (ie. to form 'economics'!). As those systems collapse, the illusoriness of the 'growth' will be clearly exposed as a fake. A few generations of humans will have made hay at the expense of numberless future humans & nonhumans.