Michael Moore, Welcome to the 'trump' side

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The USA is destroying its own economy without needing any help from anyone else.

In fact all economies will be destroyed as we enter the long emergency. All economies are driven by energy. Demand increases over time and as the energy source is depleted the costs start to rise.

We are based on a society that demands people work to get money. But soon robots/computers will be able to do any job better faster and cheaper than humans, any job.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qb0Kzb3haK8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUFRWOKyMPc

This will just make it worse.

Jevons Paradox

In economics, the Jevons paradox (/ˈdʒɛvənz/; sometimes Jevons effect) occurs when technological progress increases the efficiency with which a resource is used (reducing the amount necessary for any one use), but the rate of consumption of that resource rises because of increasing demand.[1] The Jevons paradox is perhaps the most widely known paradox in environmental economics.[2] However, governments and environmentalists generally assume that efficiency gains will lower resource consumption, ignoring the possibility of the paradox arising.[3]

In short, as something becomes more energy efficient, the cost decreases which means that usage increases as more people can afford it. As an example, cars are far more efficient than they were 100 years ago which means that most people can have one, or even two, which means more engines burning fuel. Or as aeroplanes become more efficient it allows more people to go on holidays abroad. This paradox was first observed in 1865 and so has been understood for a very long time now.

In terms of non-equilibrium thermodynamics, efficiency gains can be understood as continuing to find new ways in which to harness increasingly shallow thermodynamic gradients to perform work and thereby increasing entropy.