There is no limit to energy, but it takes time to become available. High quality energy reduces labor and increases productivity. The success of the mass economy in producing a profligate amount of goods results for efficient usage of energy and fossil fuels substituted for human energy for goods produced. Throughout this period individuals accumulated great amounts of goods, capital, and property. Growth because inexpensive energy and cheap transportation allowed companies to become national companies, their names household words, and scaled as industrial empires of enormous power. Mass means the energy, materials, and embodied resources required to produce a product or perform a service. The dominate means of amassing wealth and power in the mass economy was the exploitation of natural resources, because it was in the transformation that the great profit of industry were found. The end goal of the mass economy was the elimination of labor.[Learn More ...]

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