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This Can't Go On

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The long view of economic history says we're in the midst of a huge, unsustainable acceleration. What happens next?

Audio also available by searching Stitcher, Spotify, Google Podcasts, etc. for "Cold Takes Audio" This piece starts to make the case that we live in a remarkable century, not just a remarkable era. Previous pieces in this series talked about the strange future that could be ahead of us eventually (maybe 100 years, maybe 100,000). Summary of this piece: We're used to the world economy growing a few percent per year. This has been the case for many generations. However, this is a very unusual situation. Zooming out to all of history, we see that growth has been accelerating; that it's near its h

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