[android42]

> Economies of scale. In particular, often total costs are a combination of fixed and variable costs. The more output, the more the fixed costs can be amortized, lowering average cost.

Except that after a certain point total costs increase again as the raw inputs become more scarce and expensive to obtain.

[zeroCalories]

If resources becomes scarce, don't worry. We've just crashed the market on human value, so we can make up for it with lower wages and longer hours.

[Sammi]

Then we should grow so we can mine asteroids.