Re:Earth has lost half of its wildlife in the past 40 years ...
by dredmorbius on Thursday February 08, 2018 @11:10AM
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That depends on what's prompting the smaller-scale activity.
If increased capabilities allow more parties to engage in an activity, you'll increase total consumption.
If increased costs reduce the effective maximum scale of operations, you'll tend to have reduced consumption.
One formulation I've come up with is that "bad hygiene leads to decentralisation", where hygiene is meant in the general sense of systemic health and efficiency. Anything that reduces the capability of scaling up operations will lead to more and smaller rather than fewer and larger units of operation. This is something that proponents of decentralised systems might want to consider.
If increased capabilities allow more parties to engage in an activity, you'll increase total consumption.
If increased costs reduce the effective maximum scale of operations, you'll tend to have reduced consumption.
One formulation I've come up with is that "bad hygiene leads to decentralisation", where hygiene is meant in the general sense of systemic health and efficiency. Anything that reduces the capability of scaling up operations will lead to more and smaller rather than fewer and larger units of operation. This is something that proponents of decentralised systems might want to consider.
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