@breadandcircuses I asked a financial adviser friend about how markets seek value by creating scarcity. He agreed. Then I asked why, then, the values of nature, of functioning ecosystems, of biodiversity, etc. were nut increasing as they became scarcer. He agreed in principal, but couldn't really tell me why.
And the answer is "value to whom?" If.the value is not in the owners of all the capital, those who all of this idea we call money, then it doesn't exist. But we have numbers, and more of us value the forests over the cash printed when we cut them down. So we need to figure out how to leverage those numbers to work against the capital hoarders, and then we need to redefine capital.