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It well and truly is not. The Sun provides the Earth with enormous amounts of syntropy (this is the inverse of entropy), and we can capture this through produc
by samatman 5y ago
It well and truly is not.
The Sun provides the Earth with enormous amounts of syntropy (this is the inverse of entropy), and we can capture this through productive labor before it inevitably dissipates off into space.
As a toy example, it is certainly mathematically possible for everyone to grow more calories than they consume. We wouldn't want this, for the obvious reason that we don't need more calories than we consume, and this would be labor-intensive enough to leave many useful tasks unfilled.
But it proves you wrong: there's nothing preventing "give more than you receive" from being a categorical imperative. Certainly nothing "mathematical".
- totony 5y agoIt's not about production though. Give/receive is interpersonal, one has to receive whatever you give, which makes that person have to give more than they got from you, to whom? It's a fruitful way to live but not something you must expect of others because it's an unattainable goal.