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lugged | 4 years ago

You're ignoring that science improves and leads to further discovery.

It's perfectly fine if 0.00000001% of the population spends their lives on something that achieves nothing if a few of these lead to further developments.

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Retric|4 years ago

0.00000001% of the global population is less than one person.

Which is kind of the issue, we need a significant fraction of the global workforce to solve climate change. Inefficiency is useless because we lack the economic capacity to solve climate change inefficiently.