If you create an open market, some jobs will be lost, but everybody will be better off. Likewise, if you allocate resources to processes that are useful, it will be a better world
For some definitions of utility, sure. Not by I’s measure.
Though as you point out, the measure from the story makes a lot more sense to everyone else in the society and perhaps even to the post-unification version(s) of I.
For some definitions of utility, sure. Not by I’s measure.
Though as you point out, the measure from the story makes a lot more sense to everyone else in the society and perhaps even to the post-unification version(s) of I.