Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Wednesday introduced a bill to establish a standard four-day workweek in the United States without any reduction in pay. The bill, over a four-year period, would lowe…
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.
Infinite growth with finite resources. Our economic system is a metaphor for entropy and the heat death of the universe.
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.