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Re:Alaska’s thawing soils are now pouring carbon dioxide int... by jerf on Thursday August 24, 2017 @09:39AM (#15089988)
I already have an alternate view of money. I look at generalized wealth more directly, with money merely an somewhat interesting special case that is less special than most people think it is. (I tend to think even economists pay too much attention to currency. Not that they pay attention only to currency, but that they pay too much attention to it.) The simple truth is that if you bend the economy towards creating wind and solar and cutting down hydrocarbon usage and all the other things we have to do, all the people doing that stuff as the result of a hoax aren't doing something else that would have been more useful.

Money isn't the issue; finite time and resources are.

My point has nothing to do with how terrible capitalism is or any silly bete noirs like that. It is simply the observation that if we waste our time on A, we can't be using that time to do the better B. It sits at a level of fundamental truth far below debates about economic systems or the nature of money.

Re:Alaska’s thawing soils are now pouring carbon dioxide int... by candiodari on Friday August 25, 2017 @07:58AM (#15097766)
I wonder where the theory that government spending is simply free actually comes from, that somehow when the government spends money (or enacts regulation or taxes, same thing) that the cost is somehow magically not that everybody has to work more and/or harder to achieve those things.

But it's sure becoming a popular theory.

Also: I think what you're describing might be the broken window fallacy: http://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/08/broken-window-fal...

Re:Alaska’s thawing soils are now pouring carbon dioxide int... by alistproducer2 on Friday August 25, 2017 @11:02AM (#15098914)
>all the people doing that stuff as the result of a hoax

Are you saying that human-caused global warming is a hoax?