X-Message-Number: 20876 From: Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2003 18:10:28 EST Subject: Re: Why ony quantitative progress? --part1_12e.2061323e.2b574464_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Assume a product, a TV set for example is produced more cheaply. You can think it is a progress at least on quantitative ground. May be yes, but that progress comes with some strings: The cost reduction get possible because amore automated production line. That production line is costly, so it must have a large output to produce cheaper items. These item will take each some free time of a consummer. Because the total consummer time is limited, there must be fewer and fewer production lines and so progress possibilities. I see that for myself: Computer time has scavenged TV time for example. We are in a time saturated society and quantitative progress has taken all our time. Yvan Bozzonetti. --part1_12e.2061323e.2b574464_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" [ AUTOMATICALLY SKIPPING HTML ENCODING! ] Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=20876