Cantor’s diagonal argument: the "uncountable" irrational numbers are a larger order of infinity. Rational numbers make up 0% of the number line.

We think we can organize our world only supporting the rational, quantifiable pieces of it.

@unsolvedmre.bsky.social @economicthought.bsky.social

The Department of Transportation (@us-dot.bsky.social) values a statistical life at $13.7M.

Food and shelter are cheap maintenance for such an expensive piece of equipment.

@ubilabnetwork.bsky.social @basicincomeaction.org @simonduffy.bsky.social @puffmushroom.bsky.social

#UBISky #HumanCapital

Thomas Piketty (@thomaspiketty.bsky.social) noted that the World Bank was "amazed" to find human capital exceeds all other capital.

Why the shock?

It only seems surprising because our default economic setting for a human being not currently trading labor is $0.

#Economics #UBI #HumanCapital

We are bankrupting the world by mapping reality to a ledger that is mathematically too small to hold it. We quantify the minor part of existence and map everything else to zero.

@jamesowenweatherall.com @mathyawp.bsky.social

#Economics #ComplexityScience #SystemsThinking #CategoryTheory

If you put 5 kids—4 small business owners & 1 banker—in a “classroom economy” with only $100 at 8% interest, a math truth emerges: businesses can trade all they want, but they can never generate enough to pay back the interest + principal.

#MonetarySystem #DebtEconomics #Econ101

Most money (M0, M1, M2) is created through credit in conjunction with an interest-bearing financial instrument, so we’ve set up a math problem where the two sides will never be equal.

More debt exists than money to pay it. This is why our economy has to grow.

#CriticalThinking #MonetaryPolicy

Economics: Infinite growth is possible with finite resources.

Voltaire: "Certainly anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices."

#SustainableEconomics #Voltaire #AbsurdityandInjustice #ModernPhilosophy

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"Unlike physical goods, the abstraction of money allows us, in principle, to possess unlimited quantities of it. Thus it is easy for economists to believe in the possibility of endless exponential growth, where a mere number represents the size of the economy."

Charles Eisenstein, Sacred Economics

Belief in infinite growth with finite resources is a fantasy.

Money is boundless, but Earth is not. This abstraction ignores real-world limits.

#SustainableGrowth #GreenEconomy #LimitsToGrowth

We still use an ancient debt ledger system endangering our species.

If we cross the carbon tipping point, our ecosystem—and economy—collapse.

Time to fix the signal!

#DebtCrisis #ClimateEmergency #SystemChange

Economics directs activity and allocates resources. But it rests on faulty assumptions that can’t accurately describe reality, and it is showing its limitations. In 2030, more people will begin to enter poverty than exit it.

Let’s rethink what is possible.

#SystemChange #ClimateCrisis #NewEconomy

🌍 World Peace Endgame:

Fix economics. Save the world. Wage peace.

It’s time to rethink our economic "signal" if we want to solve the climate crisis and build lasting peace.

#HumanSurvival #WagePeace #ReimagineEverything #2026Vision