If you find some unused ground, plant some seeds, grow flowers, cut the flowers, and make a beautiful bouquet, what did you âtake from othersâ?
Lots of wealth is not âzero-sumâ like you describe, but creates new value/âbeauty/âusefulness from thin air and sunlight.
Wealth creation is not inherently bad. In fact if it improves average quality of life around the world (which has happened overwhelmingly since the Industrial revolution) then itâs overwhelmingly good.
It is our perspective to see something as useful, beautiful, or otherwise.
A forest is beautiful in the eyes of an animal, or some of our natural humans.
The mass of the world does not change from the time it is created, it is only the perspective that has changed, with Industrial revolution, we have lost the nature and converted it to the so called useful things, and as we all know, energy can neither be created nor be destroyed, it is naturally a zero sum game.
energy can neither be created nor be destroyed, it is naturally a zero sum game
While energy cannot be created or destroyed at the level of the universe, this doesnât mean itâs a zero sum game from the perspective of life on Earth. There is a huge amount of energy available in the form of atomic energy, solar energy, tidal energy etc that is simply going unused. If humans use this, no-one loses out.
Useful or otherwise from the perspective of an Individual, even before the first human being appeared, all vegetables, fruits, and the rest of the resources were there; do we call it a waste?
We donât because we were not there?
Even if human beings cease to exist, all this will continue. Is it not just our perspective? Why do we think everything is around us?
I agree that we shouldnât only care about the perspective of humans. But if humans arenât around then much of the potential energy on Earth will simply go unused (unless another technologically advanced species evolves or visits Earth from elsewhere). So yes, this would be a waste.
If you find some unused ground, plant some seeds, grow flowers, cut the flowers, and make a beautiful bouquet, what did you âtake from othersâ?
Lots of wealth is not âzero-sumâ like you describe, but creates new value/âbeauty/âusefulness from thin air and sunlight.
Wealth creation is not inherently bad. In fact if it improves average quality of life around the world (which has happened overwhelmingly since the Industrial revolution) then itâs overwhelmingly good.
It is our perspective to see something as useful, beautiful, or otherwise.
A forest is beautiful in the eyes of an animal, or some of our natural humans.
The mass of the world does not change from the time it is created, it is only the perspective that has changed, with Industrial revolution, we have lost the nature and converted it to the so called useful things, and as we all know, energy can neither be created nor be destroyed, it is naturally a zero sum game.
While energy cannot be created or destroyed at the level of the universe, this doesnât mean itâs a zero sum game from the perspective of life on Earth. There is a huge amount of energy available in the form of atomic energy, solar energy, tidal energy etc that is simply going unused. If humans use this, no-one loses out.
Useful or otherwise from the perspective of an Individual, even before the first human being appeared, all vegetables, fruits, and the rest of the resources were there; do we call it a waste?
We donât because we were not there?
Even if human beings cease to exist, all this will continue. Is it not just our perspective? Why do we think everything is around us?
I agree that we shouldnât only care about the perspective of humans. But if humans arenât around then much of the potential energy on Earth will simply go unused (unless another technologically advanced species evolves or visits Earth from elsewhere). So yes, this would be a waste.