139. – Infinite Crisis (ft. Phil Neel)
This Machine Kills
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Is There a Backlog of Old Inventions?
Malthus is actually a littlebit more of a multidimen a economic thinker. If you look at the actual economic history writings about him, and mark's engagement with him, it's much more interesting than this. But he is basely making this very this argument for this hard material constraint that's built into, in malthus case, kind of like a egronomy and and population, demographic,. right? A for for a gordon, what he's saying is very, very similar, but he's not saying it about population. He's saying it about, like, technology. And he says, we basically, like, used up all the miraculous inventions, like
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