Egoistic resource exploitation could be as easily positive as negative, because less resources are wasted on everyday living of many people. Arms races can help technological development. Slave labour can help to do things which people don't see as important enough to engage themselves. More effective than competing nations could be of course a plutocracy, which eliminates most old, useless or disabled people, sucks all resources normal people don't need to survive into their pet projects, and has no scruples to send people on deadly risky missions for their entertainment. Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahrg
Egoistic resource exploitation could be as easily positive as negative,
Ah, the positive sides of blind selfishness... for some!
because less resources are wasted on everyday living of many people
Right, the "rational" selfishness is nothing but dumb altruism objectively. So many people are working their asses out, for real benefit of few.
Arms races can help technological development.
Perpetum mobile still can't be invented...
What do we need efficiency for, after all? So that we would meet a technological and social collapse sooner?!
Slave labour can help to do things which people don't see as important enough to engage themselves.
Too bad only few will have time to do something "unimportant".
By the way, what did Romans do with their free time?
More effective than competing nations could be of course a plutocracy, which eliminates most old, useless or disabled people, sucks all resources normal people don't need to survive into their pet projects, and has no scruples to send people on deadly risky missions for their entertainment.
We are back to the subject of elites. As they like to marginalize all opinions except of their own, we will be lucky if they get some right ideas just in time :-]
