Usage
An Energy Slave is used to compare the productivity of a person and the energy that would be required to produce that work in the modern, oil fueled industrial economy, although it could be applied anywhere that labour is produced with non-human sourced energy. It does not include the ancillary costs of damage to the environment or social structures. Formally, one Energy Slave produces one unit of human labour through the non-human tools and energy supplied by the industrial economy, and therefore 1 ES times a constant that converts to work accomplished = 1 human labour unit.
The choice to “employ” Energy Slaves is only at the margins of their total impact, so are called slaves because users receive the value produced by them as an entitlement of the society.
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