
Ep. 271 The Economics of Reparations and the Danger of AI
Bob Murphy Show
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The Importance of More People in the World
If there's 16 quadrillion people on planet Earth and we're all crawling all of each other like an an hill, then you might say adding more people to the mix is poor. But I would argue empirically that limit is very far away, particularly since most of Earth right now is not inhabited. It has to do with economies of scale and fixed resources and stuff like that. And so you can merely just use armchair logic. Ultimately, it's imperial question.
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