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295. Marian Tupy & Gale Pooley — Superabundance: The Story of Population Growth, Innovation, and Human Flourishing on an Infinitely Bountiful Planet

The Michael Shermer Show

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How Many Years Would It Take to Double Something in Size?

On average, what you as a person can buy doubles every 20 years. Since 17 50, the global economy per capita has been growing at one point five % per year. How long does it take at that rate for the global g d p per capital to double? The answer is six thousand years, right? It's kind of this first step of understanding these expedential compounding growth and then extending that.

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