admittedly i've never really looked into eastern contemporary economic models, largely because of how inaccessible they are to me as somebody who does not speak the native language; an important contentious point to me are the following two: what is the role of workers in cosmology, and how to deal with non-workers?
- the first important question to ask is "what is the role of workers in cosmology"? in other words, what is the reason that humans are regarded special; why do we grant special rights and protection to humans, but not to other animals and plants. Where does this special role come from, and what conditions must be fulfilled to upkeep this role?
the way i see it, humans are a kind of driving force of history in an universal market that is tended towards growth. i'm a huge fan of outer-space human settlements (such as mars settlement), and realistically, only humans can do it. other species cannot; so we have to do it and obviously get a reward for it, since we're doing it for all of nature, not just ourselves. plants profit from larger access to land as well. this justifies putting humans on a pedestal.
- however, what happens to the humans that stay behind? i.e. those not willing to endure hardships to go on a space trip? as i see it, maintaining an equilibrium does not require humans; nature has existed billions of years just fine without us. then, what justifies that we continue to put ourselves on a pedestal? what is the deeper philosophical reason for this?