Why Isn’t the Whole World Rich?

Re:Why Isn’t the Whole World Rich? by brutusborn on Wednesday November 23, 2022 @09:06AM (#33719219)

I used to have the same utopic dream, but I have started to question whether a "small number" is actually desireable. If everyone on earth is working on great things, having more people might be better. Maybe even Elons vision of people spilling out into the stars.

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Re:Why Isn’t the Whole World Rich? by lupire on Wednesday November 23, 2022 @09:14AM (#33719328)

Everyone on Earth is contributing to the destruction of the ecosystem. "Spilling out into the stars" is impossible, there aren't enough physical resources.

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Re:Why Isn’t the Whole World Rich? by brutusborn on Wednesday November 23, 2022 @09:25AM (#33719467)

But there must be a subset that isn't? A perfect sized human resource footprint to match earths carrying capacity?

And I'm not aware of any current physical limits to space colonization? I thought the main limit was energy, and the sun has a lot to give for a while.

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Re:Why Isn’t the Whole World Rich? by hoseja on Wednesday November 23, 2022 @10:26AM (#33720325)

This is impossible with baseline humans, no matter how good you make education (without slipping into much heavier indoctrination).

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Re:Why Isn’t the Whole World Rich? by brutusborn on Wednesday November 23, 2022 @12:16PM (#33721864)

Why is that?

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