Totally get the point and generally agree. To play devil's advocate though, what about intellectual property and artistic works? Is that theoretically an infinite or near infinite good? Or at least an unending one. Also space! Maybe we can eventually become grey goo, consuming the entire galaxy to propagate more things to consume the entire galaxy. Fun!

[–] Kalkaline@lemmy.one 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Time, energy, labor, etc are the blocks

[–] Neuron@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

In that case if the blocks aren't physical or natural resources only the analogy starts to fall apart a bit, since you'd have to consider productivity and what we define as being more productive. The computer or plow or any of a number of innovation would have created blocks that weren't there before. Hard to anticipate the future. I do think our definitions of growth, value and productivity are major issues. In the end the economy and society has to transition to growth being defined as progress toward true sustainability, or at least the closest thing to it that can be achieved on a finite world that will eventually end no matter what is done on am absurd enough time scale.

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