The only growth that could be tied to non-natural resources is something like the combinatoric possibilities between a set of options.
Everything else links back to matter. Even my "internet points" on HN are tied back to the food I had to eat to type in that sweet sweet snark.
This notion that economics isn't ultimately a resource scheduling theory that falls out of a base set of behaviors (commerce). If we removed choice, we get operations research.
Capitalism is akin to wanting to cook a hotdog on a campfire and burning down an entire house to do it.
Everything else links back to matter. Even my "internet points" on HN are tied back to the food I had to eat to type in that sweet sweet snark.
This notion that economics isn't ultimately a resource scheduling theory that falls out of a base set of behaviors (commerce). If we removed choice, we get operations research.
Capitalism is akin to wanting to cook a hotdog on a campfire and burning down an entire house to do it.