Progress Studies
how do we make progress?
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Progress Studies
do you ever find it weird that as a culture we decided that “progress” just means advancement in technology and numbers on a spreadsheet,
and that things like moral advancement, human joy, positive relationships, fulfillment, psychological development, and purpose don’t count?
River Dakinix.comOur metrics of progress have continuously abstracted: from the tangible bushels of wheat in agricultural economies (with natural physical limits), to industrial-era efficiency metrics (units/hour, machine uptime), to the nebulous productivity measures of knowledge work. Each evolution has moved us further from human-scaled, naturally bounded... See more
Tina He • Jevons Paradox: A personal perspective
