• MrVilliam@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Infinite growth with finite resources. Our economic system is a metaphor for entropy and the heat death of the universe.

    • Ð Greıt Þu̇mpkin@lemm.ee
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      8 months ago

      Arguably we just have to make it to net profit asteroid mining

      From that point the numbers are always going to work out that there’s just more resources than we could ever hope to outstrip, and the question becomes much more about what human society and economy looks like in a world where all scarcity is inherently artificial.