Usually when talking about the 18th century, the two details that are discussed are the population and economic explosions. Both revolutionized the world and blew the minds of malthusians and the like, who didn’t think such growth was sustainable. Well, I have heard (to no surprise) that the world p…

It makes absolute sense why people reproduced during the 18th century and so on. It was easier to feed your family, necessities became cheaper, and overall things became more afforable and easier to sustain a family. But today, things have become more expensive and make raising a child a heavy burd…

Interestingly, recent: Is it wrong to completely dismiss Malthus? Paragraphs.

Wheylous, so after say a century of economic growth in Ancapistan it would be similar to economic growth in countries in Europe? That is strange. I would think that a country with strong infastructure should be able to match economic growth with “C-” countries who begin growing. I don’t think your a…

John James, I read the thread but only found this quote relevant: The law, to my understanding is simply “an approximate physical law as it is generally acknowledged that nothing can grow at a constant rate indefinitely.” Why can this not be the case in a place like Ancapistan where there is no …

If nothing else, the laws of physics. Energy and matter are not available in unlimited supply. Furthermore, even supposing you found a way to, say, “harness the energy of the Sun” for virtually no cost, you still have the much more serious problem of entropy. You have to be able to exhaust the wast…

I dream about living in Coruscant every other day. So, one day we will hit a point that the economy no longer grows?

The reason that people stop having children in developed countries isn’t because inflation has degraded the standard of living (although it has), it’s because developed societies are less agrarian. In an agrarian lifestyle, each additional kid is capable of “working on the farm” at an age of probabl…

I believe that inflation indirectly incentivizes people to have fewer offspring indirectly. Inflation is the mechanism where governments fund their welfare states which in my opinion is directly responsible for declining birthrates. Here are several ways the welfare state reduces birthrates: Gover…

I agree with LogicEarth’s answer. Also WRT: The law, to my understanding is simply “an approximate physical law as it is generally acknowledged that nothing can grow at a constant rate indefinitely.” Nothing can grow at any rate (constant or variable) indefinitely. And an-cap societies will lik…

Not necessarily. Many physicists and cosmologists believe the universe is constantly expanding. But even if you reject that notion, you’d still have to figure just how long it would take before all the matter and energy in the universe is being used by the society you’re talking about. The universe…

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