{"id":4311,"date":"2022-10-08T21:42:52","date_gmt":"2022-10-08T21:42:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/?p=4311"},"modified":"2022-10-08T21:42:52","modified_gmt":"2022-10-08T21:42:52","slug":"economic-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/2022\/10\/economic-growth\/","title":{"rendered":"Economic Growth"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cThere\u2019s room for economic growth\u201d<\/em>. I read this often.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s no<\/strong> room. We maxed out in so many ways, I don\u2019t understand how folks don\u2019t see the writing on the wall. A few examples:<\/p>\n

Batteries<\/h4>\n

We\u2019re using a 40 year old technology, invented by a man who\u2019s so into battery tech and willing to find the successor to Lithium-ion, that he\u2019s 100 years old<\/a>, out of retirement, and still working on it. Still ain\u2019t found shit! Innovation on batteries has halted for decades, we only have made improvements like them charging faster. It\u2019s simply the limits of physics; we have combined every metal, tried every tuning, there\u2019s a HUGE demand for better batteries and we still don\u2019t have them. That\u2019s a sign that we maxed out (and that\u2019s fine; our battery-powered devices last for long enough in 90% of cases).<\/p>\n

Digital storage<\/h4>\n

1TB on a SSD is under $100. One Terabyte is a huge amount of data. As the internet tells me, that\u2019s 341 million<\/strong> 3-minute songs. Absurd. No one will need more than a few TB to store their entire life. Writers can write 8 hours a day for 80 years and that\u2019s probably the equivalent of like, 500MB. One 1998 CD-ROM. That\u2019s a sign that we maxed out.<\/p>\n

Real life storage<\/h4>\n

People\u2019s garages! They\u2019re filled with unused stuff. Everyone. That means people buy shit they don\u2019t need, all the time. How do you want to keep it this way? We cannot. It\u2019s pure waste. We maxed out.<\/p>\n

Convenience<\/h4>\n

How do you want to have more convenience than talking to a box and get delivered whatever? Or tap a screen to say \u201cconfirm\u201d and boom, you have what you want? We created USB-C because USB-A is \u201cso\u201d annoying with its habit of making you try TWO ways of inserting a cable my goodness, can you even deal with this pressure? We maxed out. Our designed-to-move bodies don\u2019t do shit.<\/p>\n

Isolation<\/h4>\n

We can\u2019t be more isolated than walking in public, eyes on phones at all times, in-ear buds with noise-cancelling tech, and act as if that\u2019s going to help a society that has a lot of trouble to stay together now, can we? We maxed out here as well.<\/p>\n

Stress<\/h4>\n

I don\u2019t think we can go much further than having 3-4 jobs, notifications of doom on our devices 24\/7, and the very real possibility to get killed by the very people supposed to protect us. I don\u2019t think we can.<\/p>\n

Etc.<\/p>\n

And so yeah, that means the current capitalist economy (buying stuff and getting salaries) can\u2019t sustain us\/grow anymore. Which is fine. Which is why we need UBI. It\u2019s not even a political thing, it simply makes sense. We literally print money for Ukraine and businesses? Just do that for people to heal at home. Vote this shit in, y\u2019all.<\/p>\n

We need to foster a better environment, period.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cThere\u2019s room for economic growth\u201d. I read this often. There\u2019s no room. We maxed out in so many ways, I don\u2019t understand how folks don\u2019t see the writing on the wall. A few examples: Batteries We\u2019re using a 40 year old technology, invented by a man who\u2019s so into battery tech and willing to find […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4311"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4311"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4312,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4311\/revisions\/4312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}