Created Saturday 04 February 2023
Not a capitalist society. Their is economic growth, and space opens up a lot to and from that. There is expansion in it, but not fundamental to it. It is a sustaining market. Like was feudalism. Prosepcts about ways to benefit from the economy (beyond sustaining it) were most often from finding efficiencies to it. The economy improves through discovering new efficiencies.
But otherwise, it's a closed system. I mean, that is really what will define the Anthropocene. Humans will come to dominate Earth's biospehre. They will make it into something---and then be responsible for maintaining it that way.
Want to put so much potential energy into your fertilizer that you could literally use it to make a decent bomb? You're going to need a lot of petroleum. Keep that system going, feeding so many calories into that even domestic animals start to suffer from obesity. You're going to need a lot more petroleum.
And you better frigging use at least the last bit of that petroleum to run on something else. Or you'll be in for a new phase of the Anthropocene---really, an inevitable phase unless humans really can outrun their appetite forever outward into space.
And so, eventually, the Anthropocene becomes a closed system. No more magic energy spewing black and funky from God's Good Mother Earth.
And a lot of the non-human things that had run things in
(the pre-Anthropocene) went extinct going into the Anthropocene. It's up to Humans now to deal with what they've made of their world. And a lot of that was not really that well done.And you better frigging use at least the last bit of that petroleum to run on something else. Or you'll be in for a new phase of the Anthropocene---really, an inevitable phase unless humans really can outrun their appetite forever outward into space.
And so, eventually, the Anthropocene becomes a closed system. No more magic energy spewing black and funky from God's Good Mother Earth.
And a lot of the non-human things that had run things in
And so the main, historical role of the Deciders was to find efficiencies---ways of redressing past wrongs and persistent mistakes---to the Anthropic world.
And it's the job of the System to keep what's going going. The System is given as much as it needs to run an economy like the current, and it's the System's bjo to make sure that actually happens. If the System thrives doing that, fine. If it starves doing that, fine. As long as the economy stays the same. The members of the System may starve, some may thrive. More better-run system tries to move toward the latter.
That is the basis of the Anthropic economy.
System's Market
The Black market. But not disparaged. Just not supported: It is part of what is neither asked for or about. Saying "it's neither asked for or about" means it's part of what the System does on its own. But it is a sordid market. Just because it's the freest of unregulated markets, just because it is inherently zero-sum, does not mean it's shared equally by all. In fact, to a horrifying degree, that is hardly the fact at all. Pakistan.