Why more money? Why not less work?
I see a lot of talk lately about 'creating jobs.' I always just shake my head and wonder at the people scrambling to create holes for people to dig, and fill back in again.
Engineers will quickly recognize, Power = Work/Time.
Simply, the more power we have, the more work we put in, and the less time is required. So if we substitute money for power (The adage, "money is power" rings true here), then we should see more time freed up, with our ability to scale work with power. There is no doubt that we are producing more work and more power, and doing it more efficiently over less time in accordance with Moore's Law. So, I ask you.. Where is our free time? What happened to it? And why are we trying to create more work, rather than account for that lost time?
Do we have no way of throttling the manufacture of unnecessary crap, in order to make our time and energy more valuable?
All you macro-economists out there, explain to me why we can't put a collective premium on work output (say a dollar value per joule spent) and measure that to come up with an accurate scale for our real economic growth?
Either we are a true global economy, or we're just price-fixing certain commodities in order to legislate profit to particular stakeholders. I'm gonna go ahead and throw my hat in for the former. Y'all go ahead and disagree if you like, but I'd like an explanation.
Engineers will quickly recognize, Power = Work/Time.
Simply, the more power we have, the more work we put in, and the less time is required. So if we substitute money for power (The adage, "money is power" rings true here), then we should see more time freed up, with our ability to scale work with power. There is no doubt that we are producing more work and more power, and doing it more efficiently over less time in accordance with Moore's Law. So, I ask you.. Where is our free time? What happened to it? And why are we trying to create more work, rather than account for that lost time?
Do we have no way of throttling the manufacture of unnecessary crap, in order to make our time and energy more valuable?
All you macro-economists out there, explain to me why we can't put a collective premium on work output (say a dollar value per joule spent) and measure that to come up with an accurate scale for our real economic growth?
Either we are a true global economy, or we're just price-fixing certain commodities in order to legislate profit to particular stakeholders. I'm gonna go ahead and throw my hat in for the former. Y'all go ahead and disagree if you like, but I'd like an explanation.
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