Wealth: The Toxic Byproduct (2013)
This article is an interesting thought experiment, but I can&#x27;t help but feel that the statements made are in such opposition to understood economic principle and call into question basic moral precepts.  That doesn&#x27;t mean it&#x27;s wrong, it just feels alien to read.<p>As an example of what I mean, the idea of consumption being a net-negative destructive action goes against the economic concept of velocity of money and how that drives economic engines.  On the other hand, I can understand because the net value is perhaps negative of a grossly consumptive action like buying a yacht, simply because of the natural resources consumed to produce it.  Economics rarely accounts for the externalities.