@Background Pony #3A25
A resource based economy is the root of everything fucked up with modern society.
Resource based economies were great back in the 20th century and earlier, when resources were hard to get.
With modern technology, a resource based economy is unable to provide the jobs to support a population.
A resource based economy does not have the mechanisms to distribute a nation’s wealth so that the entire population can live at a reasonable level.
In the modern economy, where 1% of the population can grow enough food for everyone, where resource extraction, refinement, and manufacturing is increasingly automated, having a resource based economy is not a source of prosperity, it’s asking for a societal upheaval that will make the French Revolution look like a tea party.