The Limitations of the Laws of Entropy

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Economists are thinking that there are laws of entropede that would apply to society. The analogy here would be the refrigerator. How do i make an area that is cold? If anthropede just wants to have heat flow and the temperature even out, you know, it's very hard to make things cold. You have to build a machine. And a it takes work in a refrigerator in order to move heat from the contents to the surrounding kitchen. What if human society is governed by the laws of enthropy, and it takes work, which is energy? We're all eating and metabalizing that that provides the work. But where is the waste? Is there waste heat,

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