ReadMultiplex.com: You Have 5000 Days: Navigating the End of Work as We Know It. Part 24: The Doomslayer!

About this episode

This episode discusses the concept of abundance in the context of population growth and economic resources, challenging the narrative of scarcity.

Imagine this. You pay literally half as much in the only currency that truly matters for your weekly groceries, for the fuel in your tank, for the car in your driveway, or even for the home that shelters your family. All of this becomes possible precisely because four billion additional human minds have entered the planetary conversation since the late twentieth century. It sounds completely insane. It feels as if it defies physics itself. For our entire lives we have been steeped in a narrative of inevitable scarcity. The Earth is running out of space, running out of resources, running out of time. Every new person is portrayed as just another mouth taking a larger bite out of an ever shrinking pie. The whole cultural atmosphere has conditioned us to see population growth as a threat, innovation as a temporary fix, and the future as a narrowing corridor of limits. Yet the hard mathematical reality of the past half century reveals the precise opposite. The pie is not shrinking. It is multiplying at an accelerating rate. We are living through what I call the Abundance Interregnum, a turbulent, noisy, chaotic transitional period between the dying industrial age of enforced physical…

Topics covered

• abundance
• population growth
• economic theory
• scarcity
• innovation

Keywords

• Abundance Interregnum
• Simon Abundance Index
• economic growth
• resource management

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Books & works: You Have 5000 Days: Navigating the End of Work as We Know It

Places: Earth

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