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>That quote always bugged me because it disregards that our economic growth is not really tethered to natural resources. I really think the opposite is true, w

• sitkack 6y ago
  The only growth that could be tied to non-natural resources is something like the combinatoric possibilities between a set of options. Everything else links back to matter. Even my "internet points" on HN are tied back to the food I had to eat to type in that sweet sweet snark. This notion that economics isn't ultimately a resource scheduling theory that falls out of a base set of behaviors (commerce). If we removed choice, we get operations research. Capitalism is akin to wanting to cook a hotdog on a campfire and burning down an entire house to do it.