Yikes no. Cash generation's a proxy for capturing human value, maybe. If we run with that:
- value can be generated, but not captured (generally good-natured humans do this constantly with those in their communities), and
- value can also be captured, but not generated (i.e. stolen, most of the largest corporations do this in one way or another via e.g. monopolization, political corruption, union busting, resource exploitation, real estate speculation, etc).
Let me give you an example of how backwards that is:
Are you telling me that, for example, Linus Torvalds (or any major contributor to Linux) has generated less long term human value than a congressperson like Rick Scott or Mark Werner?
Linux runs on machines that literally keep people alive as well as that are used to create and display works of art.
Yikes no. Cash generation's a proxy for capturing human value, maybe. If we run with that:
- value can be generated, but not captured (generally good-natured humans do this constantly with those in their communities), and
- value can also be captured, but not generated (i.e. stolen, most of the largest corporations do this in one way or another via e.g. monopolization, political corruption, union busting, resource exploitation, real estate speculation, etc).
Not everything needs to generate long term human value. It's okay to just have fun, too.
Please really think hard about what that means.
Let me give you an example of how backwards that is:
Are you telling me that, for example, Linus Torvalds (or any major contributor to Linux) has generated less long term human value than a congressperson like Rick Scott or Mark Werner?
Linux runs on machines that literally keep people alive as well as that are used to create and display works of art.
What a warped thing to believe in
Like some intensive cash-generating activities: drug dealing, weapon traficking, stealing, and money printing. Value at its best.
Under what assumptions?
Just trying to guess at what they could be is costing me random time...