ACTUALLY THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT I'M SUGGESTING AARONOriginally Posted by The Man
If we're going to continue the semi-serious portion of PG's quarterly 'troll' thread, perhaps you can enlighten me. Because I'm not convinced.
I'll even help you out:
#1 calculation-in-kind:
an apple tree costs more in water and takes up more space but
an orange tree costs more in fertilizer and man hours to harvest
which costs less?
#2 do everything the same every day:
Are you serious?
#3 when do we upgrade?
solar power is renewable energy but the cost of production is unknown
should we switch from coal and oil power or nuclear power? why or why not
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etc.
Without free market price mechanisms you don't have a unit of measurement to discern / approximate profits and losses. Take weight loss: how do you figure out how to gain weight or lose weight? do you just eat more food? and then just determine from experience what a unit of food does to you? You know eating less food usually / might help lose weight but just ask anybody who knows about this (Julian, Jojo, Vivi) and they will tell you the body adapts. now what? just eat even less food??
You need calories to figure this out. You need to know your BMI as a heuristic.
MONEY IS NOT THE PROBLEM.
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