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Please help me understand. I'll type a dramatic sentence or two. I don't mean to provoke anyone. I just wish to learn what I'm missing in the big picture. Has
by savolai 8y ago
Please help me understand.
I'll type a dramatic sentence or two. I don't mean to provoke anyone. I just wish to learn what I'm missing in the big picture.
Hasn't Amazon effectively optimized a machine to make sure humankind consumes all the natural resources it has and beyond? That's how this piece reads to me. All bottlenecks again and again removed on the road to self annihilation?
I guess I'm asking what limits or inhibiting factors still do exist that might make a difference?
- paulcole 8y ago> humankind consumes all the natural resources it has and beyond The system will collapse well before the limit of all available natural resources is reached. We're well on our way already. Amazon isn't the machine it's just part of the machine. Think about Sears being perhaps the first significant iteration of the machine and Amazon removing one of the "bottlenecks" and being the current phase of evolution. It's very clear to me that there's no going back to the way things were "before" without a significant drop in human population. The problem will solve itself far better than we're willing/able to.
- savolai 8y agoThanks. The collapse of which system are you referring to?