• kibiz0r@midwest.social
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    2 days ago

    The Jevons Paradox is not inherently capitalist. It emerges whenever a system has feedback loops that convert efficiency gains into expanded use.

    Rigid, conservation-oriented planning may suppress it… but flexible, growth-driven planning may just reproduce it in administrative form.

    It’s relatively rare for humans to not want the next generation to have more than they did, so I wouldn’t count on that happening.