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by imtringued 1500 days ago
>Human societies have experienced exponential growth since forever, with only occasional brief temporary setbacks.

If that were true why haven't we conquered the galaxy yet? It would only take 3% growth per year for 2000 years (numbers from memory). Oh right, it didn't happen because exponential growth is a fairy tale. It's always been logistic growth with breakthroughs increasing the upper bound.