Growth or Death
Economic growth has been criticized for decades, even centuries if we consider anti-industrialists like Henry David Thoreau. The specific arguments used vary wildly. They might include romantic, spiritual, environmental, feminist, and anti-Western takes. All these arguments, however, belong to one of two categories. The first category is “degrowth”, those who actually want to shrink the
Is there such a thing as society?
Margaret Thatcher is famous for saying „There is no such thing as society. There are individual men and women and there are families and no government can do anything except through people and people look to themselves first.” I rephrased that into a question because the answer to that question determines which policies benefit the
Halbe’s Razor
Many philosophical and in fact political, economic and cultural “problems” are instead questions of thermodynamics. Or, at the very least, by looking at the thermodynamics behind them, many wrong avenues can be discarded outright. The underlying reason for this is the intricate relationship between entropy and randomness. High entropy means a lot of randomness, and