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> subtractive solutions and don’t “grow the GDP” like brand new EVs Maybe GDP is a bad metric. In any other field, a metric this naïve would be laughed out the
by screye 3y ago
> subtractive solutions and don’t “grow the GDP” like brand new EVs
Maybe GDP is a bad metric. In any other field, a metric this naïve would be laughed out the door.
If GDP is trying to capture net effective productivity, then let's stop using a metric that's 2 degrees of aggregated abstraction away from this metric of interest.
Cars are middlemen. They allow labor to reach a location that performs a productive activity. They produce no productivity of their own. IE. Cars are network IO. Whichever transport method maximizes throughput and minimizes latency for the least cost is ideal.
Any decent engineer knows that the key to better network IO is to:
* improve locality - (keep things near each other)
* batch things together - (buses and trains)
* reduce size of individual packets - (cycles instead of huge cars)
* no lossy transmission - (maintain worker productivity, stave off obesity)
* avoid waits as much as possible, let actions happen async (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqQSwQLDIK8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqQSwQLDIK8)
- fnimick 3y agoAnd like any system, middlemen will attempt make themselves mandatory in order to preserve their status and profits. Look no further than car dealers lobbying for laws that all sales must go through dealers, for example. Or car companies lobbying for laws that incentivize people to own private cars by making alternatives infeasible and unsafe.
- kingds 3y agoi think you’re misunderstanding what GDP (gross domestic product) means. it’s basically a measure of the total revenue in a country’s economy. it has nothing to do with “productivity” in the sense of efficiency.