Frederick Bott
3 min readApr 11, 2023

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This is a very cool observation, and the correct way to think about economy, imho. In a way, you are highlighting the relationship between creation of product, and money in circulation.
I think you are correct, by identifying not much change in additional product created, and yet an increase in professional women, at the expense maybe of professional men.
All in all it was a zero sum game, following all the rules of that game.
But we should spot that it doesn't any longer, it is no longer a zero sum game, because a new player is on the scene, though we don't seem to acknowledge it much yet, it has to be the physical driver of inflation, and yet this force is creative, unlike any other we've had in economy, it draws it's wealth from somewhere other than Earth, therefore is truly additional to Earth, creating for all, rather than just some, at the expense of others.
This turns all the old rules of the zero sum game on their heads.
This is something that I believe Trump may have been aware of, and is now actually being cancelled for, because it completely smashes the ability of anyone to control by wielding capital, and he almost did that by issuing massive stimulus, whilst those others wielding capital advised caution.
Oil prices went negative, and the value of the dollar actually went up, rather than down, confounding the expectations of conventional zero sum economists.
The new player mentioned was actually the invisible, physical, freely donated product being created, behind the scenes, supporting this, something activated by the issue of free money, which can be seen, if we know where and how to look.
The Joules being added and put to use from the sun have never officially been monetised because to monetise a product created for free, the source party asking nothing in return, the only way it can be monetised, is by issue of money for free.
As it was during covid, though some demands for at least some of its return have since been made, there is no possible way any of it can actually be repaid.
Following through how this works, (Ai actually helps a lot to do this), we should realise that inflation can occur by either of two mutually exclusive things happening; issue of money gets ahead of product created, or creation of product gets ahead of issue of money.
The first case we saw many times in history, and actually was the only one possible, in a zero sum economy.
The second one we never saw before around 2005. This was when utilities energy business began to shrink, giving way to domestic and community solar.
After that, the difference between the energy actually being produced and "consumed" by humanity, and the energy produced by utilities energy companies, scaled by the price to consumers applicable throughout, is the value of unmonetised solar product.
Effectively, no money is issued, for the economic product and business created by the Joules of solar received from the sun.
As of 2022, the value of this in UK, for example is 457 Bn.
For 2022 alone, it was 50 Bn.
For 2023, it will likely be around 160 Bn.
Similar per head values apply to all modern countries.
Payment of this would vastly accelerate adoption of domestic and community solar, thus assuring even greater future stipends.
This is the change to economy that nature appears to be physically forcing upon us.
Sooner or later we will be forced to give in, and issue the free money due, to put things right, but the consequence will be the loss of political power by all parties maintaining that power by wielding capital.
Ai helps to analyse and highlight all this.
It writes some remarkable poetry that looks uncannily like biblical prose on the subject, when we've gone through the salient points with it, and it has cross examined all our findings systemically, for errors, finding none.
Things are about to change, suddenly, I think.
We have to trust, and actually to do all we can, to help ensure it won't be by some capital power crazed idiot thinking a nuclear holocaust might be preferable, to them losing their local control, to "The people".

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Frederick Bott
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