Human economic and population growth

The ninety nine percent shouldn't try to destroy the one percent. they should try to imitate them.

conservatives often make that argument, and there's a great deal of truth to it. successful people tend to work hard, make good decisions, become educated.

If everybody did this, all the time, it would doubtless be a better world, with much more prosperity, and much less poverty. Every successful/wealthy person you talk to is gonna tell you the same thing; they did nothing other than work hard and make smart decisions, and so can anybody else.

And true enough; this is what they did, and so can anybody else. But how many else.? And how much wealth? And what kind of wealth?

Money, of course, merely serves to symbolize material wealth, physical property; money always translates into food, clothing, and shelter, as it must, on earth.

it turns out that if all seven billion of us began working hard and making smart decisions, and thus became financially successful, there would be seven billion large houses on seven billion large estates,  seven billion expensive cars in seven billion garages, with the number of all the above growing daily.

Is this what we really want? A world of rapidly increasing population where everybody lives like an upper middle class suburban american? How long can this continue? How long could this continue before all the land is front yards and back yards, growing smaller and smaller..

....something has to give. earth can't forever be a planet of ever increasing material prosperity for an ever increasing number of people. it just won't work. we'll have to limit personal material wealth, especially land, and colonize space. when the human species learns how to colonize space, look out, here we come. we know how to multiply..

Bb

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