• Asafum@feddit.nl
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    Oh and also the earth is boiling, all housing is being bought up, and AI systems that no one asked for are taking jobs and consuming so many resources that your expenses go up even if you never touch AI.

    Why are you so anxious!? Snowflake generation!!

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    We can make it worse: the economic model we use is based on the idea that we have infinite resources for constant growth.

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      It isn’t.

      Growth doesn’t mean that more physical resources changed hands. It just means that a greater exchange of value happened in transactions. For example, if it takes a small business owner 24h per year to do their taxes, and then you invent better tax software that makes it easier such that they now only spend 4h per year, that would translate to economic growth.