Exnihiloest wrote:We already discussed this, remember. Your repository is the economy. But there are underlying mechanisms that are not related to the economy and that I can as easily as you did, claim that they will escape if you reduce everything to the mechanisms of the economy. One has the impression that you forget that all this is the work of humans.
The economy* is a colloquial term to designate what should be objectively defined as the metabolism of the anthropotechnical system.
In such a system there is interdependence of phenomena, humans do the economy, but the economy in turn determines human behavior.
It is also on this last point that the entire ecological problem resides: although aware of the ecosystem issues, economic agents cannot act because of their captivity (ex:I want to reduce pollution but I need my car to go to work).
Finance is not production, and patents are about production. Any other use is therefore a diversion
There is no technology (and by extension production) without funding, so technology and economy are entangled and in reality constitute only two sides of the same coin in the same way as the mind and the body in the world. or the hardware and for mobile devices to report the in computer science.
Every system ends up degenerating and the various shortcomings which can result from the abuses of each other are part of systemic evolution according to a Darwinian logic of attempt / success / error / memorization.
The financialization in the extreme so much decried by the defenders of "old-fashioned capitalism" (production capitalism) does not seem to grasp that its "abuses" are in reality only strategies intended to perpetuate the whole.
In an imaginary way we can say that the industrial system once bogged down in its structural limits, develops an extra corporeal output (recourse to economic abstraction) in order to generate a future attractor whose objective is to draw the whole of his present position.
*Human activity which consists in the production, distribution, exchange and consumption of goods and services (Wiki).
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