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  • How crucial is it to move these rocks? What’s the deadline? How many rocks need to be moved? Are there safety procedures in check, and will safety equipment be provided?

    Yes. Let’s introduce OSHA standards into a theoretical example where moving rocks feeds people.

    All the while spinning a billion bullshit nonsense side points.

    Labor has a supply.

    Labor has a demand.

    To dismiss that is to dismiss reality. Yes. The nature of labor can change and some sorts of work can be abandoned when there is a shortage. No. That doesn’t invalidate scarcity and your “degrowth is good and okay” seems tor to just be a hilarious and twisted rationalization of how when your ideals cause the economy (and more importantly the general will being of people in the nation) to collapse that it’s actually a good thing.


  • Let’s imagine I had 100 rocks. For some reason I have to move them in order to feed everyone.

    If I have one person I can move one rock a day.

    With two people I can move two rocks.

    And so on and so forth.

    There is a labor demand - the need to move rocks.

    And a labor supply - the number of people you have available to move rocks.

    You can’t mind game your way out of that. Call it a commodity or not, you still need X people to do Y tasks and the discrepancy between the tasks and the people you have to do them is a measure and very real thing.

    Because I did

    Arrogance that knows no bounds.