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Is Money Fundamentally Energy?
The economic system is geared toward measuring our success by the s of our energy use. G d p is really just a measure for how much stuff we burn in the world, because o in every single product that ends up in the world economic system started somewhere on the planet with a small in some factory. Why is thee this embedded growth obligation? Ah, well, one could argue, from an evolutionary sense, that as um when they're young, they need more calories to grow. And humans, too. We want to grow. But then we reach 20 something and we stop growing. That doesn't have to be a disaster.