> Things like economies can't grow like that says who? if i were born and living in the 1500s, how could i predict the economy would soon grow 10%/year for ov

> Things like economies can't grow like that says who? if i were born and living in the 1500s, how could i predict the economy would soon grow 10%/year for over a century? you're just stating things like facts which have never been predictable. nothing about our current growth was inevitable, neither is a gigantic slowdown. i think these kinds of predictions are: 1. far more difficult than we realise 2. so difficult that there is almost no value in making them.