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Re:Why Are There Still So Many Jobs? The History and Future ... by TeMPOraL on Monday August 03, 2015 @05:49PM (#10000139)
There isn't going to be an unbounded exponential growth, and every techno-prophet knows it (as opposed to armchair economists) - if we keep basing our economy on endless growth, everything will go to hell when we hit the natural limits.
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Re:Why Are There Still So Many Jobs? The History and Future ... by georgeecollins on Tuesday August 04, 2015 @05:33PM (#10006419)
That's a very old idea (1798) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malthusian_catastrophe

(1972) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Limits_to_Growth

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Re:Why Are There Still So Many Jobs? The History and Future ... by TeMPOraL on Tuesday August 04, 2015 @05:37PM (#10006448)
It is, but some armchair proponents of market economy don't seem to have gotten the memo.
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Re:Why Are There Still So Many Jobs? The History and Future ... by netcan on Monday August 03, 2015 @05:54PM (#10000166)
What are the natural limits? Do you mean natural resources?
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Re:Why Are There Still So Many Jobs? The History and Future ... by TeMPOraL on Monday August 03, 2015 @06:00PM (#10000198)
Natural resources, Earth's capacity to sustain our growth, and later on, speed of light (unless we break the FTL, there's only so fast we can expand our economy). Every exponential growth in physical world (as opposed to mathematical theory) has a limit at some point.
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Re:Why Are There Still So Many Jobs? The History and Future ... by hebdo on Monday August 03, 2015 @05:59PM (#10000193)
Yes, for example. Any resource you can think of.

Be creative: unbounded exponential growth would mean, for instance, that at some point in the future the global yearly energy consumption would be higher than what E=mc^2 suggests for m=mass of the earth.

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Re:Why Are There Still So Many Jobs? The History and Future ... by nickff on Monday August 03, 2015 @06:10PM (#10000256)
You're implicitly assuming that all human energy consumption takes place on planet Earth.
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Re:Why Are There Still So Many Jobs? The History and Future ... by qu4z-2 on Monday August 03, 2015 @09:01PM (#10000999)
Or at least in the universe, which seems like a fair assumption for now.
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