[bryanlarsen]

The iPhone 12 is smaller than the iPhone 11. Does anybody think that it is worse for that reason?

If you buy a Ford Lightning instead of a gasoline truck and fuel it with solar power, you might use 50 tons or so less gasoline. Is that worse?

We're a community mostly built on software. A new game may provide massive entertainment on a very minimal footprint.

Sure the population cannot grow indefinitely, but it is predicted to stabilize soon.

The economy can grow indefinitely. Dollars are just bits in a computer, and so is a large fraction of our economy.

[badpun]

Isn't iPhone 12 like 3x the price of iPhone 4? That in itself is the signal of some sort of decline - the same (more or less) goods get gradually more expensive/less accessible.