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by kbenson 3931 days ago
Wow, this has been on here a twice a few years back, but never had a single comment. Here's to breaking the trend.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5814769

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6346156

This is from the same site, from the title looks to be prior work on the same topic, also submitted previously (6 years ago) with no comments:

http://physics.ucsd.edu/do-the-math/2011/07/can-economic-gro...

1 comments

It's too challenging and bleak. Beneath the light tone, it mercilessly drives home the truth that all of modern society exists in a temporary historical juncture that is not stable over a timespan of mere centuries. Instead of the smoothly increasing "better everything" over time that was practically a secular religion in the latter half of the 20th, we're told that things will change drastically in the not that distant future, and not in the manner we've believed.
Nobody belongs anywhere, nobody exists on purpose, everybody's going to die.

How about saving the existential dread for your therapist? Let economists focus on economics.

Economics are driven by people. People have emotions. Failure to grasp this leads to disaster.