The Netherlands may be the first country to hit the limits of growth
Seems very questionable to me to call out Netherlands as having reached some hard limit that a country like Singapore has blown right by.   Singapore has a 40% greater GDP per capita, 16 times (!) the population density, and would starve in a matter of weeks without food imports, or grind to a halt almost overnight, without energy imports.   3&#x2F;4 of its GDP is services based.   All of which is to say, a small nation with the right niche economic model can blow by the supposed limits Netherlands is encountering, albeit at the cost of any semblance of having a balanced or remotely self-sufficient economy.