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#45 - Tyler Cowen's case for maximising econ growth, stabilising civilization & thinking long-term

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Is There a Future for Humanity?

I do think population will stabilize and start to decline, though probably not by very much. Do you think that quality of lifeill also go up with like probability? Not forever, but for the foreseeable future. We're in the period right now we're doing more to improve living standards than the world ever has before. That will have big ups and downs, but i don't see why it has to stop. But wealth supports many different opportunities. The whole point of wealth is to enable a kind of diversity and choice within a framework were if there's some other thing people value, we can have more of that too.

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