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Comment by danuker

Land will always be scarce. People multiply until that land gets to the limit of what it can provide.

Energy is also scarce. A limited amount of solar energy falls on the Earth, and if you need more than that, it gets very expensive (from space somehow).

Food is limited by labor (which scales with people) but also by energy and land (which do not).

As such, there will always be scarcity, signalled through prices. One way of making resources more abundant per person is capping/reducing population.

parent danuker 4 years ago

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