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Not only does this ignore what he wrote, it is exactly the cliché he describes. Parent: > mocking those who do as "snowflakes" and "anti growth" and "anti pro

Not only does this ignore what he wrote, it is exactly the cliché he describes. Parent: > mocking those who do as "snowflakes" and "anti growth" and "anti progress" You: > the rise in productivity, which you're dismissing What makes people adaptable and resilient is creativity and hard work. Today you can buy that with money but the money itself isn’t doing anything. If all farmers stop farming tomorrow, you die no matter how much money you have. How money is linked to increase of productivity is still to prove, as well as parent dismissal of the rise of productivity.

ETH_start 2y ago
You completely missed my point. Money itself, of course, doesn't matter. It's just a unit of account we use to quantify the value of economic resources we have. It is the economic resources themselves that matter, and when we find ways to run businesses more profitably or provide products at a lower cost, that results in the long run in more economic resources being generated. That's how it works in a market economy, and a market economy is orders of magnitude more effective at the process of developing capital and raising our productivity than any other way of organizing society.
- aziaziazi 2y ago
  With all respect, I think your reflexion is reasoning with economical ressources while ignoring the (finite) material ressources which is exactly KennyBlanken point. If you're increasing today's productivity with actions that will decrease tomorrow productivity, the result for this week productivity may be negative. E.G. most countries regulate pesticide use for that reason.
  - ETH_start 2y ago
    Something like 99.99% of the energy emitted by the sun every second is wasted forever into space. The faster we can grow the economy and build out machines that can harvest that solar radiation, the less material resources are wasted.

ETH_start 2y ago

You completely missed my point. Money itself, of course, doesn't matter. It's just a unit of account we use to quantify the value of economic resources we have. It is the economic resources themselves that matter, and when we find ways to run businesses more profitably or provide products at a lower cost, that results in the long run in more economic resources being generated. That's how it works in a market economy, and a market economy is orders of magnitude more effective at the process of developing capital and raising our productivity than any other way of organizing society.

aziaziazi 2y ago
With all respect, I think your reflexion is reasoning with economical ressources while ignoring the (finite) material ressources which is exactly KennyBlanken point. If you're increasing today's productivity with actions that will decrease tomorrow productivity, the result for this week productivity may be negative. E.G. most countries regulate pesticide use for that reason.
- ETH_start 2y ago
  Something like 99.99% of the energy emitted by the sun every second is wasted forever into space. The faster we can grow the economy and build out machines that can harvest that solar radiation, the less material resources are wasted.