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I think there is a similar thing with electricity production, having a fusion generator would give "huge amounts of electricity" until someone thought of a use
by brobdingnagians 7y ago
I think there is a similar thing with electricity production, having a fusion generator would give "huge amounts of electricity" until someone thought of a use for all that electricity. There's always something bigger you can find that is limited by current amounts of resources.
- chongli 7y agoAnother good one is roads. The old way of thinking was straightforward: "we've got too much traffic, let's build more roads!" Now we realize that building more roads encourages more people to drive. There seems to be practically unlimited demand for roads.