armstrys
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I was about to my own comment to say that in this instance the correlation probably does mean something, but what we interpret from the chart can be ambiguous based on the assumed “causation”.
I...
I think there can be other variables that impact it and other forms of wealth.
But even money is store energy. You applied energy (labor), you traded it for money, and that money represents a proof of work that you can then exchange for someone else's energy (labor).
Through our work and innovation, we then created new methods of labor, where we can create more energy than just from the human body alone. But that's still wealth in the same sense.