"Money made doesn't perfectly track value added" is a surprisingly controversial belief given I have to program computers for a living to earn somewhere south of the average American worker's contribution to GDP.
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Even aside from the (very real) limits of money for valuing things, what you earn clearly doesn't count the surplus profit/benefit anybody else (e.g. your employer, their customers) gains from your work. So: makes sense to me!
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In this thought experiment where the internet is gone, I’m curious, why keep two toes?
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Two bits of signaling in case you're communication-incapacitated for some reason?
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As it is improving with time, there is some point we can call the Patio Point at which
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FWIW though GDP has more than doubled since 1990 tech boom. Whether that’s all attributed to tech is another story.
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Karl Marx called it Mehrwert.
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Wonder how many people will ask me what's the best example of a flat earth here.
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Real US GDP increased by about 60% since 1995 according to that site. Internet only accounts for part of that growth, e.g. their population grew by 20%.
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