Economics, Science, and Religion 11

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B. The second law of thermodynamics is in force everywhere and always.

Any thermodynamic work process - and every economic process is necessarily thermodynamic, since matter is always moved under the participation of entropy and energy - contains a necessary, inevitable loss.

However, this loss is not reflected in the economic balance sheets, except as a price for resources; and even then only as the cost of thermodynamics, i. e. as the costs for their procurement.

If there are no resources there, then there is no profit to be made in mining; but the resources themselves are always free, be they oil, ore, or moving air (the reversal of this view states that the nonexistent price of a resource does not reflect the cost of providing it).

At the beginning of every economic chain, something therefore is for free - and this something is created by gravity, and is provided for free of charge; be it ore, sunlight, geothermal energy, or the sheer existence of the Earth, as an accumulation of matter in emptied space, for economic processes to take place upon. It does not have to be made.

Since ultimately everything is based on resources, everything ultimately is for free; no product without material and fuel; costs arise only in their use. And these economic processes of usage, as part of Creation, are directed as well:

One can from make a chair out of a tree, but not a tree out of a chair. You can let iron rust again to iron oxide, but this happens "by itself", and the primary and secondary loss of smelting is always thermodynamically irretrievable. Even the first opening of the aforementioned tree with the saw cannot be undone; it can only heal again. Here, too, time, entropy and energy flows are directed.


All processes, and with that all economic processes on earth as well, are a compound of gravitation and thermodynamics, and both, directly or indirectly, are the result of a gradient invoked by gravity; gravitation always comes before thermodynamics.

Without gravity, there is no potential; without potential, there are no thermodynamics; and without thermodynamics, no life or economy.

The food and respiratory chain on which we, as living beings, are directly dependent upon shows this very clearly:

As an aftereffect of processes that are set and held in motion by the Sun's own gravity, plants grow on this planet - which is itself held together by its very own force of gravity - that directly or indirectly serve humans as a source of life; this at an overall, but necessary loss, over the food or energy chain, of perhaps over 90%.

And as part of that chain, all humans, animals or machines must necessarily always require more than they are able to deliver, and so cost more than they earn; even as slaves or self-employed.

Any society on the economic level of hunters and gatherers is acutely aware of this; they know the time it takes to repair an economic "damage" - their own "gain" of harvest or prey - by the ongoing process of creation.

 This consciousness not only serves them as orientation; their very survival depends on it.


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