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That's an extremely sad point of view. Of course humans can accomplish things that are not economically viable. Perhaps it's become harder in our current socie
by sspiff 3y ago
That's an extremely sad point of view. Of course humans can accomplish things that are not economically viable.
Perhaps it's become harder in our current society, but many great projects of man were economic folly.
To give one admittedly a little cliche example, landing on the moon never made any economic sense.
- Dylan16807 3y agoThat's not what I'm talking about. Pretend getting to the moon would have cost a quadrillion dollars. We wouldn't have been able to do it.
- JumpCrisscross 3y ago> Pretend getting to the moon would have cost a quadrillion dollars. We wouldn't have been able to do it. This is a statement of reality, not economic system. A society that decided to divert resources, today, to building a Dyson sphere on Alpha Centauri would fail, irrespective of economic system, because the goal demands more resources than it can sustainably divert.
- Dylan16807 3y ago> This is a statement of reality, not economic system. Yes, that's my point. The worry about "economically feasible" in the ancestor comment is a question of what plans are realistic with unlimited motivation. It's not about economic systems holding us back.