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What is an Economy For? People? Planet? Profits? The Machine? Endless (sic) Valuation (sic) Until All Gaskets Burst?

What is an Economy For? People? Planet? Profits? The Machine? Endless (sic) Valuation (sic) Until All Gaskets Burst?

tap dancing into not just a painted-in corner . . . AI and synthetic biology is the paradigm shift....Economics played today puts a dollar on every blink, yawn, step, defecation, urination, swallow..

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Sep 30, 2023
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“Economists study and analyze poverty in their nice offices, have all the statistics, make all the models, and are convinced that they know everything that you can know about poverty. But they don’t understand poverty.”
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Manfred Max-Neef

They just will not stop. They will not step back and say, “This is just not a technology, science, service or system t…

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