Proclaiming Liberalism, and What It Now Means

Urbane Guerrilla · 06-08-2007, 10:57 AM

On the present planetary scale, Flint, I'm not sure there is a finite limit. Maybe on a solar-system-wide scale there is, but the matter is not yet tested.

Wealth does not yet appear to be a zero-sum game, so far as I can see. The Club of Rome tried modeling the future of Earth's global economy that way, and nothing they predicted panned out. They thought India would be a starved-out desert by now, et cetera. They seemed not to have reckoned with innovation, admittedly an imponderable.

xoxoxoBruce · 06-08-2007, 10:59 AM

Well, it is zero for some.

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Urbane Guerrilla Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Southern California Posts: 6,674	On the present planetary scale, Flint, I'm not sure there is a finite limit. Maybe on a solar-system-wide scale there is, but the matter is not yet tested. Wealth does not yet appear to be a zero-sum game, so far as I can see. The Club of Rome tried modeling the future of Earth's global economy that way, and nothing they predicted panned out. They thought India would be a starved-out desert by now, et cetera. They seemed not to have reckoned with innovation, admittedly an imponderable. __________________ Wanna stop school shootings? End Gun-Free Zones, of course.

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xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Well, it is zero for some. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

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