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109 comments on What is a Human Being Worth (in Terms of Energy)?

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NeverLNG on July 20, 2008 - 11:12am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

All of this thread is so frustratingly nerdy. The oil is there, people have found fun ways to use it-- gazillions of trinkets of no essential value other than novelty-- and not-so-fun ways to use it, making bombs and warplanes and the like.

The entire western industrial economy is all about converting oil into money. To be sure, some of it is used for food, some for shelter -- but most of it is just useless fluff that a nerd (like me) has no way of understanding or appreciating the value of.

My theory is that the total volume of nerdiness in the world is inversely proportional to the amount of oil available.

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Partypooper on July 20, 2008 - 12:27pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

And idleitis is directly proportional to the amount of oil avaiable.

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