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Charles Stross · 17 Jun 2026

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  1. Bezos is taking an assumption as an axiom—that economic growth is both desirable and possible. He's almost certainly wrong about at least one of those things. (We're already close to peak population, heading for global decline by 2100. Without population growth economic growth is problematic.)

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