Thanks for recommending. Solid discussion around the topic.
Discussion
Thiel has been staying on message for quite a while. Here is another discussion with David Graeber from 2014: https://vimeo.com/112197123
Thanks. I’ll have a listen.
I’d wager our ‘aging population’ isn’t a root cause problem either, and instead a reflection of our inability to build efficient systems that scale. Intuitively, having more, greater experienced people, should result in accelerated innovation and efficiency - we are going the reverse.
We’ve failed to leverage efficiency at scale (outside of capitalism), while dawdling at managing population growth and increases consumption. Recycling is one such great fail - and it continues to be a joke - we don’t even design for it or have strategies.
Population, at least in Germany, isn’t growing. Recycling, it seems, might once again be solved by burning waste.
E.g. even from articles against the copenhagen incineration plant one can see, that it works: https://zerowasteeurope.eu/2019/11/copenhagen-incineration-plant/
Of course your argument is not, that the technology does not exist, but that we fail to utilize it at scale.
To that I can only say that consensus is hard, and it is not made easier by technology that I would expect to make it easier. The reason could really be missing revenue streams next to selling eyeballs.