Re:No, You can't retire rich at 30 if you sell your startup
by yummyfajitas on Monday August 23, 2010 @03:46PM
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I was only looking at the past 40 years, much like the original poster. My edit clarifies this point.
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Re:No, You can't retire rich at 30 if you sell your startup
by cageface on Monday August 23, 2010 @03:59PM
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Even in that window of time if the underlying pattern is this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bacterial_growth_en.svg
40 years doesn't tell you much about the next 10.
Growth rates in recent times have depended largely on finite resources, many of which are now becoming scarce. It may be that we innovate around all of this, but it's far from certain.
Re:No, You can't retire rich at 30 if you sell your startup
by eugenejen on Monday August 23, 2010 @04:30PM
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But the bacteria growth in Petri dishes is limited by resource, and bacteria has no way to change the situation.
Maybe we are really limited by available resources. We know for sure that we have limited supply of the solar energy. At the other hand, we are just using what is available on the surface of the Earth. Maybe we are going to figure out how to utilize more resources outside the surface of the Earth, or efficient way to use and recycle resources.