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Originally Posted by Flint
... If there is a finite amount of stuff you can possess...
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I think sometimes I subconsciously include qualifiers, even while ignoring their implications. At any rate, UG sliced right through this one with an enchanted Ocaam's Razor +3.
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Originally Posted by Urbane Guerrilla
On the present planetary scale, Flint, I'm not sure there is a finite limit. ...
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That's what I get for not questioning assumptions (and I usually spend all day trying to find new ways of doing that!) UT continues...
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Originally Posted by Undertoad
It's not a zero-sum game because the output of workers converts things that are not valuable into things that are valuable.
The major component of the $300 Intel multi-core microprocessor is less than a penny's worth of sand. ...
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I think, at the bottom of what I'm saying is the nagging fact that you can't
eat microchips. Well, you can't eat sand, either, but what I mean is we could "run out" of, say, life-giving fresh water.
In that case, the Middle-East might face the awkward situation of having converted from water-hoarding tribes, to petroleum-hoarding tribes, only to convert back to water-hoarding tribes.
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Originally Posted by Undertoad
Capitalism works better because...
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Please stop comparing things to other things. As rightful owner of this threadjack, I forbid it.