Re:Why Are There Still So Many Jobs? The History and Future ...
by dllthomas on Tuesday August 04, 2015 @02:38PM
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I didn't think you were disagreeing with me - I think you were agreeing with something I didn't say. I was just speaking to definitions.
Whether unbounded exponential "economic growth" is possible in a finite universe is actually a significantly more involved question. It's obviously not possible if "economic value" is bounded, but in principle could be "possible" with finite stuff in continuous space (obviously, economic value depends significantly on configurations of stuff and not just amounts).
All of this is interesting, but I honestly don't expect any reasoning involving hard theoretic bounds to be of any use in determining what's likely over my lifetime, or those of my children.
Whether unbounded exponential "economic growth" is possible in a finite universe is actually a significantly more involved question. It's obviously not possible if "economic value" is bounded, but in principle could be "possible" with finite stuff in continuous space (obviously, economic value depends significantly on configurations of stuff and not just amounts).
All of this is interesting, but I honestly don't expect any reasoning involving hard theoretic bounds to be of any use in determining what's likely over my lifetime, or those of my children.