That doesn't mean that we're anywhere close to the limits to growth (to coin a phrase).

My inclination is to turn off the laptop and walk to the beach muttering about what people aren't seeing.

For an analog, consider the world of Star Trek: TNG, or Iain Banks' Culture series.

Meanwhile, back on earth...

Have you ever watched a starving grey whale calf try to suckle the keel of a boat because it's mother died in it's final act of giving birth? Emaciated, the cow lacked the strength to complete it's annual migration the final 500 miles to the warm lagoons where they have birthed since time began. So she pupped in the cold waters off Los Angeles, and sank in the shallows; rocks in her belly in a last attempt to scoop up some nourishment from a seafloor devoid of life thanks to industrial chem dumping; a superfund site AI and economists cannot resolve.

where any physical object can be provided to any person near-instantly at near-zero cost

We'll all get 500' BezosBoats at near zero cost? Let them eat NFTs"

But what about the other creatures in the chain of life on this planet?

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