Machine Surplus vs Human Surplus

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Chor Pharn:

"Machine surplus measures the density of energy, compute, and capital that can produce without human input. Human surplus measures the state’s ability to educate, employ, and attach meaning to its population. High values on both axes describe coherence; low values on both describe stagnation. Most of the world now sits between them, pulled diagonally by technology and demography."

(https://thecuttingfloor.substack.com/p/machine-civilisation-the-age-of-surplus)