[Summary/Long:] "Low-hanging fruits been plucked, the use of space has had some meaningful productivity gains," "immigrants moving seems trading higher salarie

[Summary/Long:] "Low-hanging fruits been plucked, the use of space has had some meaningful productivity gains," "immigrants moving seems trading higher salaries for higher expenses," "inaccurate is posing the regime of exponential growth as a normal state of affairs that can be returned to If you assume it was going to last forever you get mathematically absurd results. For example if you assume 3% per year growth in wages over the next 1000 years then every worker is going to be making 274 quadrillion dollars per year. In 2000 years they are making 1.89x10^30 dollars. In 3000 years they are making 1.23x10^43 dollars. In 4000 years it’s 9x10^55 dollars, which is enough money to buy each atom that makes up the planet earth at a price of $100000 per atom." > "Does it sound obvious that some people can cope better with limitations than others?" [short/conclusion:] (painoptimized^^) Duh "We want flying cars" But... um How else do we get the (armored) anti-riot water cannon truck upstairs ? May robots carry'em ? P-: hint: it wasn't intentionally but "anecdotes that have a place in a 'bigger' picture" for a first look, wow...interestic thread, you have... (-: