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Re:Why We Banned Legos (2006) by mwcampbell on Friday February 18, 2022 @07:53PM (#30393341)
Isn't the whole world a fixed pie? Sure, technological advances let us make more efficient use of our resources, but they're still finite.
Re:Why We Banned Legos (2006) by WalterBright on Friday February 18, 2022 @08:26PM (#30393525)
> Isn't the whole world a fixed pie?

Nope. We use energy to transform valueless things into ever more valuable things.

Re:Why We Banned Legos (2006) by mwcampbell on Friday February 18, 2022 @08:42PM (#30393627)
Someday our current cheap energy will run out, and we'll just have to divide up what we have left. At least, that's what I hear. People have been predicting this for a while, and it hasn't happened yet (at least where I live in the US), but that doesn't mean it won't.
Re:Why We Banned Legos (2006) by WalterBright on Friday February 18, 2022 @08:56PM (#30393715)
The Earth is just a dot in the sphere around the Sun through which all the Sun's energy passes.
Re:Why We Banned Legos (2006) by Apocryphon on Friday February 18, 2022 @09:23PM (#30393858)
And eventually the sun will become a red giant, devouring the earth.
Re:Why We Banned Legos (2006) by leetcrew on Friday February 18, 2022 @10:15PM (#30394099)
we have about 5 billion years to figure out a solution to that. I'm not too worried.