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Lemons(?) of Lemmy, what is something that feels so obvious to you that you just get lowkey pissed at the world for not knowing? (lemmy.one)

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[-] AA5B@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

But you’re assuming the type of growth will never change.

population growth is not sustainable and we’re past that point, but knowledge growth is
resources growth is not sustainable and we’re past that point for many resources, but economies can grow independently of resources

[-] Zacryon@lemmy.wtf 4 points 6 months ago

They literally said:

Perpetual growth in a finite system is impossible

I don't see how your comment applies to that.

Knowlegde growth may be sustainable, but it is also impossible to grow forever. (Supposing knowlegde is finite, which is, as far as I see it, the case as long as we make the definition of knowledge depend on characteristics like repition-free and new. For example, you could learn the number pi to even longer lenghts forever, but doing that is not necessarily something new to know as it's just a manifestation of a repition which was already discovered.)

I'm intrigued how you would explain that economies could grow independently of resources. From my perspective, it looks a lot like each and every form of economy relies somehow on some form of resource or resources. As resources are finite, economies can't grow forever.

[-] AA5B@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

There are already trends showing economic growth disconnected from both resources and energy. Welcome to the service economy

[-] Zacryon@lemmy.wtf 2 points 6 months ago

Service needs workforce performing the service. Workforce are usually human resources. Thereby, limited again. Or did I get it wrong?

[-] AA5B@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

We already have many cases where a very small number of humans can manage automated services for millions. It’s extremely scalable

While you could argue the electronics and power are also a resource dependency, it again scales extremely well

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