The founders were stuck on this ball of rock, like we mostly are. They didn't have 'unlimited resources'. They were stuck with Terran resources.
Some don't count all the resources of the Sol Solar System as 'unlimited resources'
Change the unlimited to a boundry condition like Terran resources, and I might agree.
It's not received as you think it should be.
/johnny
Change the unlimited to a boundry condition like Terran resources, and I might agree.
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Ok I’ll give it a boundary condition of Terran resources.
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Some don’t count all the resources of the Sol Solar System as ‘unlimited resources’
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But in another 60 years or so at current rates of technological innovation resources in the Solar System will be available for exploitation. (There are companies founded already in the early stages of mining surveys.) While those resources are not unlimited—they are many orders of magnitude greater than those available on earth. Just as the resources available in America in 1780 were many orders of magnitude greater than those available in Europe—especially for ordinary folk.