Re:Deep-sea mining may soon ease the world's battery-metal s...
by s1artibartfast on Tuesday July 04, 2023 @02:09PM
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>Because you are still more efficiently using that 2nd doctors time. Time is the resource in that case.
Yes, it is a more productive use of human human capital and time.
I think that time is a different resource than the parent poster was talking about when they spoke of resource-depletion-driven collapse, physical limits, and unsustainable growth.
I take that to mean they think physical material consumption must always go up if we want economic growth. This is why I tried to point out that economic growth can include many things that don't need raw materials.
Because you are still more efficiently using that 2nd doctors time. Time is the resource in that case.
And I agree with your last point. The mail issue I’m bringing up is that economic growth, as traditionally defined, is a blunt tool at best to measure what we really care about: quality of life. I think there is a good argument that there is marginal utility past a certain point, if not outright negative impacts. We confuse the measure for the target.