On: The World Economy Just Can’t Escape Its Low-Growth, Low-Inflation Rut

[fallingfrog]

As for point 2: you’re underestimating the distance between stars. Trade on the interstellar scale can’t exist; so we’re limited to at most our own solar system (I would count a colony in a new solar system to be a separate system altogether).

[koboll → fallingfrog]

In the extremely long term, yes, we will probably have to abandon the solar system. But others exist and are reachable.