This comment seems to conflate two different statements.
1 Most of GDP depends of stable goods like steel, concrete and copper wire. 2 Most of GDP is the production of stable goods that almost everything depends on.
What you need for the counter argument to work is point 2 while many of the claims are only supporting point 1.
I dont think 2 is true (if you exclude the production for humans who then provide labor). For example education, healthcare, tourism, retail.
I wasn’t claiming that most of the GDP is the production of staple goods. I did at one point claim that by the time your subgraph is large enough to produce a broad range of staple goods, it’s probably around the size and complexity of the ecomonomy of a large country. But I agree that that would be a very boring country, that produced no fine cheese, wine, or art.
This comment seems to conflate two different statements.
1 Most of GDP depends of stable goods like steel, concrete and copper wire.
2 Most of GDP is the production of stable goods that almost everything depends on.
What you need for the counter argument to work is point 2 while many of the claims are only supporting point 1.
I dont think 2 is true (if you exclude the production for humans who then provide labor). For example education, healthcare, tourism, retail.
I wasn’t claiming that most of the GDP is the production of staple goods. I did at one point claim that by the time your subgraph is large enough to produce a broad range of staple goods, it’s probably around the size and complexity of the ecomonomy of a large country. But I agree that that would be a very boring country, that produced no fine cheese, wine, or art.