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| ▲ | lurk2 a day ago | parent [-] | | It’s not a false dichotomy at all. There is a finite set of resources that can be deployed at any given time. $1 spent on a laptop is $1 that isn’t going to medicine. This usually a curve rather than a straight line (so usually you’re better off with some combination of both), but this doesn’t really apply to a situation where your limiting factor is dollars rather than the factors of production. | | |
| ▲ | tvshtr 19 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | You're building your arguments on a false premise, that ALL resources are distributed from some magical mutually exclusive abstract bucket. While it's true when applied to some slices of reality (be it on micro or macro levels) it isn't true in general, where it's parallelized, distributed, discrete and largely independent instead.
Doing it your way would inherently lead to socio-cultural diversity collapse.
Which is what's actually happening currently, not due to failure of distribution, but due to resources being siphoned and accumulated by hostile entities. | | |
| ▲ | lurk2 19 hours ago | parent [-] | | > You're building your arguments on a false premise, that ALL resources are distributed from some magical mutually exclusive abstract bucket. There is nothing magical about the idea that a resource used for one thing is unavailable to be used for another thing. > it isn't true in general, where it's parallelized, distributed, discrete and largely independent instead. Can you provide any concrete example of where the premise does not hold true? |
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| ▲ | jazzyjackson a day ago | parent | prev [-] | | There actually isn't a finite set of resources when we're talking about human capital. Motivation and inspiration and incentive come into play, and as it happens different people are inspired to work on different things. | | |
| ▲ | alephnerd a day ago | parent | next [-] | | > There actually isn't a finite set of resources when we're talking about human capital Ever heard of something called a budget? Teachers, aid workers, doctors, and others need to get paid. Their suppliers need to get paid. Infrastructure needs to be built. All of that costs money. | | |
| ▲ | jazzyjackson a day ago | parent [-] | | So what, there's only so much money? Or does money represent the amount of work people are willing to do? My point is simply that the amount of productivity a given population can exercise is not bound to the amount of money in circulation. | | |
| ▲ | lurk2 21 hours ago | parent [-] | | > My point is simply that the amount of productivity a given population can exercise is not bound to the amount of money in circulation. It is bound by other constraints. |
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| ▲ | lurk2 a day ago | parent | prev [-] | | > There actually isn't a finite set of resources when we're talking about human capital. Wrong. |
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