Re:Can Economic Growth Last?
by Retric on Monday September 14, 2015 @07:09AM
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Video video games are part of GDP when in game stuff can be sold. With player power inflation being a thing, GDP becomes unbound. Note this works even if computing resources stop increasing because introducing a blue ray gun that's better than the green Ray gun does not take more FLOPs.
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>> video games are part of GDP when in game stuff can be sold. With player power inflation being a thing, GDP becomes unbound.
I look forward to a future where most of the economy is optional and I can walk away from it and retire in complete comfort. Hint, we're getting there and if you're not building real wealth you're going to miss it and be FORCED to play video games to pay me rent on the physical world you take up space in.
Wouldn't the same level of rationality required to create and sustain that huge and complicated marketplace, when applied to a micro level prevent all the participants from wasting their lives trying to acquire blue ray guns?