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Re:Moore's Law for Everything by est31 on Tuesday March 16, 2021 @04:40PM (#26482628)
Also note that a situation where humanity's productivity is expanding is way better from a social standpoint than one where it is stagnant. The first allows positive sum games to exist. The second is a zero sum game. Of course there is a limit to growth as the reachable universe is finite.
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Re:Moore's Law for Everything by sudosysgen on Tuesday March 16, 2021 @05:23PM (#26483187)
If the goal of wealth accumulation is not actually to be better off but to be better than your neighbour (as it is), then positive sum games become zero sum games functionally.

So no, that's not really a solution either.

But even then, the goal isn't to limit human productivity, is it? It's to limit how much we work and lifestyle inflation, which doesn't require growth to go to zero.

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