Q&A: “CURT: HOW ARE WE NOT WEALTHIER THAN CAVE MEN?” —“we are not wealthier th

Q&A: “CURT: HOW ARE WE NOT WEALTHIER THAN CAVE MEN?”

—“we are not wealthier than cave men, we have made all goods and services infinitely cheaper through cooperation in a division of perception, cognition, knowledge, labor and advocacy.”—

—“I obviously understand how a division of labor leads to higher productivity and more opportunities experienced by people, but I would think that’d still make each of us wealthier than cavemen.”—

Rhetorical device to draw attention to the fact that our only existential wealth is time. And through cooperation we have radically increased the purchasing power of time, by radically increasing our productivity through a division of knowledge and labor.

This statement illustrates better than any other that I have found, that we cannot increase the inventory of time (much), but we can dramatically increase the caloric transformation of the universe for our benefit by working in complex cooperative arrangements.