Cargo Is Piling Up Everywhere, and It's Making Inflation Worse

Re:Cargo Is Piling Up Everywhere, and It's Making Inflation ... by pmlnr on Tuesday June 22, 2021 @06:33AM (#27589970)

> we could have ~10 trillion.

Where? Physically, where? Compressed into tiny apartments all over the planet, like sardine cans?

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Re:Cargo Is Piling Up Everywhere, and It's Making Inflation ... by ddnb on Tuesday June 22, 2021 @06:53AM (#27590092)

Fun fact: the whole human population can fit in the state of Texas if it had the same density as NYC. That answers the where. Compressed into tiny apartments? Yes, but maybe we should double everybody apartments and house them in 2 times Texas?

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Re:Cargo Is Piling Up Everywhere, and It's Making Inflation ... by ben_w on Tuesday June 22, 2021 @07:49AM (#27590493)

That’s about the population density of Paris or Athens.

I’d only be happy with that population level if we had a lot of Arcology-style mega-buildings to give each of us enough space and parkland, but that’s rather my point: tech enables the otherwise impossible.

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