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Modern economic systems define productivity as speed per production unit. That is, importance is given to the rapidity of the execution of a determined job. For example, according to a study done some years ago, it was determined that the quantity of energy utilized to build a car was far superior to that which was strictly necessary. For what reason? To enable the finished product to leave the assembly line as fast as possible. A driver traveling with an almost empty tank has two possibilities: either to drive faster to reach the petrol station earlier, risking, though, to be left without fuel, or to drive slowly compensating a lesser speed with a longer distance. In the first case entropy would increase giving advantaging to speed; in the second case entropy would diminish to the detriment of speed. In the latter case, however, this driver would have more of a chance to reach the petrol station.
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