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Re:Vienam Bans Unskippable Ads, Requires Skip Button to Appe... by oneeyedpigeon on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @12:40PM (#46515601)
Maybe. Or maybe we could fund those services from all the money we'd save without advertising.
Re:Vienam Bans Unskippable Ads, Requires Skip Button to Appe... by pixl97 on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @01:01PM (#46515985)
Assuming a zero sum economy, which is a pretty poor assumption.
Re:Vienam Bans Unskippable Ads, Requires Skip Button to Appe... by thuuuomas on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @02:35PM (#46517423)
We aren’t even mining asteroids near Earth’s orbit. Space colonization is a ketamine dream. There’s no extraterrestrial economy. Earth is all we have. One pie.
Re:Vienam Bans Unskippable Ads, Requires Skip Button to Appe... by elevatortrim on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @04:22PM (#46518983)
Because we are spending our resources on stupid shit like tiktok virals funded by ads.
Re:Vienam Bans Unskippable Ads, Requires Skip Button to Appe... by twoodfin on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @06:47PM (#46520578)
A pie that includes sand which is now turned into GPUs that can solve complex problems described in English. Value that was unlocked fairly recently from “one pie”.
Re:Vienam Bans Unskippable Ads, Requires Skip Button to Appe... by thuuuomas on Friday January 09, 2026 @12:25PM (#46556336)
Tell me, is the deployment of that famous talking sand at all resource-constrained?
Re:Vienam Bans Unskippable Ads, Requires Skip Button to Appe... by twoodfin on Saturday January 10, 2026 @11:49PM (#46572785)
Of course: Everything is resource-constrained. That’s why it’s called economics.

The question was whether the “pie”—total economic output—has a meaningful upper bound on growth because we only have a whole planet full of resources to exploit as our minds and capabilities allow.

The answer is no, and history bears that out.