Hello

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There you go gettin all alpha twitchy! Was that last word grouping a question? And when you say earth as a whole, are you really asking about the world wide money/market that exists today? Or are you asking if the earth as a concept can sustain a true economy that is not a non sequitur or unfortunate misnomer?

No our economy is not economical- so much so that it is disturbing enough to give me tightness in my chest.

Personally, I am resistant to Blu Ray, HD and 3D! Guess I'll have to buy the White album again...

Money is a man made philosophical invention. There are no naturally occurring laws that govern it. Modern monetary economics was a pseudo-natural evolution from barter based economics which existed because small communities allowed for simple commerce.

With technology developing at the current rate money is becoming counter-productive to our ability to develop technologies that are for the betterment of mankind. It is much cheaper to rape earth's finite resources than spend the money to enhance other technologies which will allow resource sustainability. Why has development with wind and solar energy technologies been so slow? The obvious answer to me is mainly two fold. R&D is a "money pit" in a technology that will harness and store naturally occurring energy that poses no risk to life. A company would have to spend ridiculous amounts of their money to create a product for which it will not be able to force their customers into cyclically consumption. A product which can not be used up will not create additional demand and therefore the company will not receive a justifiable monetary return on their investment. Although if you take money out of the picture and worry only of the advancement of mankind solely, it is counter-intuitive not to be putting all possible efforts into developing said technology.

The advancement of our technologies is directly related to the machination of industry and production and is erasing the necessity for human employment. The labor for pay system is falling apart before our very eyes, and the monetary economy built upon said system is crumbling simultaneously. The number of homeless increases as does the number of homes which are without people. Out of pure survival necessity our global economy WILL change. How long can a huge group of people dying of thirst stare at a river that is philosophically off limits to them? I can not say what our economy will evolve into, but it is becoming more apparent to me that people in the future will laugh at how idiotic our use of our available resources were.

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Really this should be its own thread as it is way outside the scope of dude's intro and I bunch to say about this subject but have not had to time formulate a response..