This can't go on (2021)
My difficulty with this piece is that despite mentioning economic growth over and over and over, even extrapolating a comparison to the number of atoms in the universe for some reason, it gives no working definition of it at all.<p>Is it money? If all the prices and salaries inflate 2x at the same time, the economy is twice as large without really growing.<p>Is it people? Then this is just the fear there will be infinite people on the planet, which doesn’t happen because of birth control and feedback-regulating to 2.2 children.<p>Is it that we will all have huge loans, not just home and education, but on everything as the price of living in society and are expected to make regular payments?<p>What is “the size of the economy” and how is it relevant over a thousand years? Your graph is meaningless penciling without knowing this.