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Re:Economics Needs a Post-Crash Revolution by pas on Sunday October 27, 2019 @10:59AM (#21370112)
In economics growth is a natural consequence of technological progress. And that doesn't seem to be stopping any time soon.

The big applied questions is how to manage the cyclicality - that arises in any dynamic system anyhow.

Re:Economics Needs a Post-Crash Revolution by WMCRUN on Sunday October 27, 2019 @06:58PM (#21373022)
I would argue the real question is sustainability. The universe is finite.
Re:Economics Needs a Post-Crash Revolution by pas on Monday October 28, 2019 @06:26PM (#21382418)
Right, the concern is not unfounded, but maybe a bit counterproductive without context. There are many resources we already exploit very inefficiently, and the sustainability of those is a real worry, but the general carrying capacity of Earth and the solar system is really really vastly huge, we just do very dumb things to ourselves economically speaking. (This is of course the coordination problem, and it's hard, as human behavior is what it is.)
Re:Economics Needs a Post-Crash Revolution by limomium on Monday October 28, 2019 @05:03PM (#21381645)
Last I heard it was expanding -- and the expansion was accelerating.

When we looked at the most empty spot we could find with the best camera ever built, we saw more universe than we could even have imagined.

Earth, ok, that's somewhat finite. Yet we're literally barely scratching its surface.