Faith in Human Efficiency

Analysing a little of the logic of Nikola Tesla

Probably the most famous public artifact of Nikola Tesla is his paper on human efficiency.

Interested folks can quickly find it on Google. It was published in 1900, 120 years ago.

In there, we see some incredible equations of human efficiency, with physical things in nature.

Nikola never talked much about the economy, at least not in public, yet that is something integral to human efficiency.

If his vision of free power for all people had been realised, the economy would absolutely have been changed, from one of controlled scarcity, to one of infinite stimulus.

Infinite stimulus becomes possible, and inevitable, in the presence of free power.

Likewise, free power becomes possible, and inevitable, in the presence of sustained massive stimulus.

Massive stimulus, is stimulus of 10K dollars or more per month, per person.

We saw it once, when oil prices went negative, and the dollar value went up, not down.

It wasn’t sustained of course, the argument being that it was unsustainable.

But why, if the dollar value went up?

I’ve analysed that question in much greater detail in other articles, the point in this one is the importance of how the economy works, in human efficiency.