Once you have more, you’ll want more. This is true whether applied to wealth, power or technology.
And, the more efficient you are the more quickly you’ll use up that efficiency. Think of getting a raise, what happens is you don’t save it, instead you spend more easily. Or the successful employee who’s good at his job; despite being a desired asset of the company, he’ll be expected to do more work, produce more and at higher levels of quality. (His compensation per unit of energy actually drops after any promotion.) Why? Because more demands more. In other words, we only become more hungry and wasteful the more efficient we become. This is Jevons Parodox…
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