Re: Big purple digit

In article <furlq0$499$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, William December Starr writes:
In article <ddfr-D8B026.22521623042008@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, David Friedman <ddfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:
"Karl Johanson" <karljohanson@xxxxxxx> wrote:
"Keith F. Lynch" <kfl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote

No, it's because it's a pyramid scheme. Pyramid schemes
can't last forever.

Only if population growth can't last forever.

If the universe is finite, it can't--unless, of course, it's
expanding, in mass as well as size.

That assumes that matter is quantized. If it isn't then the
population could grow indefinitely with people just getting
smaller and smaller. :-)

In Bloch's _This Crowded Earth_, they tried shrinking the populace to
avoid shrinking the population. It didn't work, but not due to the
fact that matter is quantized.

--
Michael F. Stemper
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