We May Replace Oil, We May Get Away From It

"We've been trying to replace oil for a very long time with hydrogen fuel cells and all kinds of other stuff, and it just has never worked," he says. "So i want to talk about one of my favorite fantasy stories about economics, which is obelix and company." In the graphic novel, Asterix's village fights off an encroaching roman empire by making giant obelisks. But when they sell so many Obeliskes that there's no more need for them, the industry collapses. 'It's this amazing, like depiction of this, like, bubble economy'