[nostrademons]

There've been plenty of booms and busts before, eg. the late Bronze Age collapse, the fall of the Roman Empire, most Chinese dynastic transitions, the destruction of North American civilizations by colonialism. This boom just happens to be bigger than the ones that came before.

[avgcorrection]

I meant that there has only been one boom-and-bust cycle to end organized human existence on Earth. That’s what I meant…