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Steve, if you're suggesting with passing reference to creativity, learning, and kaizen in your model that these aren't functions in a modern economy, we've just dismissed the last 50 years of experience with production in Japan. I don't buy it. Latest tortured math tyranny.

Meet the new boss same as the old boss,

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Introducing some science to help understand economics sounds like a good idea to me.

Humans eat stored energy (plants and animals) and store it themselves: labour IS energy.

Machines need energy to function.

Capital can be used to buy energy or things that have been created using energy

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