Could you explain what you mean by resource allocation? Certainly there’s a lot of political and public opinion resistance to any new technology that would help the rich and not the poor. I think that stems from the thought that it will provide even more incentive for the rich to increase inequality (a view to which I’m sympathetic), but I don’t see how it would imply that only the distribution of wealth is important...
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I do not mean “wealth” when I talk about resource allocation. I mean actual real stuff: how much heat is generated on one’s behalf, how much O2 is transformed to CO2 per unit time for whom, who benefits from a given square-meter-second of sunlight energy, etc. As importantly, how much attention and motivated work one gets from other people, how much of their consumed resources benefit whom, etc.?
Money is a very noisy measure of this, and is deeply misleading when applied to any long-term goals.
Could you explain what you mean by resource allocation? Certainly there’s a lot of political and public opinion resistance to any new technology that would help the rich and not the poor. I think that stems from the thought that it will provide even more incentive for the rich to increase inequality (a view to which I’m sympathetic), but I don’t see how it would imply that only the distribution of wealth is important...
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I do not mean “wealth” when I talk about resource allocation. I mean actual real stuff: how much heat is generated on one’s behalf, how much O2 is transformed to CO2 per unit time for whom, who benefits from a given square-meter-second of sunlight energy, etc. As importantly, how much attention and motivated work one gets from other people, how much of their consumed resources benefit whom, etc.?
Money is a very noisy measure of this, and is deeply misleading when applied to any long-term goals.