August 10, 2009

Cotton and Javon's Paradox


Javon's Paradox states roughly that the more efficient you get at using a resource, the more you'll use it.

So I guess Javon's Paradox kicked in with the invention of the cotton gin. (That's a cotton gin pictured above.) The use of cotton eclipsed the use of linen once processing cotton became more efficient.

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