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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (13540)	6/25/2025 2:43:46 AM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 13775

The death of growth No amount of the innovations you are seeing will bring the economic growth and the wealth that past innovations brought. Hence the younger generations and the future generations will not share a big wealth gains that the past generations achieved, Professor Gordon was explaining this concisely and clearly before Quantitative Easing and the digitalization wave and all the last 12 years world economic evolution and the ballooning of US federal deficit and China economy plateauing. See these $7 trillion AI investments Sam Altman talk about? It will never make the economic impact of innovations as internal combustion engines, Aluminum and copper or telephones. That is why I keep writing here: Stop trying to lift economies that are past their potential growth and invest the capital where the potential lies. And that it is not the silly Gates foundation or USAID. It is investment in productive activities in the emerging markets. Capital misallocations and hogging will lead to failure. The death of innovation, the end of growth https://www.ted.com/talks/robert_gordon_the_death_of_innovation_the_end_of_growth?language=en

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (13540)	8/11/2025 2:25:25 AM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 13775

Only Africa has people to spare. The people Musk want to send to Mars will be Africans in 6 of the 21 countries with average fertility rates of less than 2.1 and fewer births than deaths during 2000–25, immigration prevented depopulation. Low fertility also feeds a related phenomenon: population aging. This amplifies the economic, social, and political challenges facing countries with shrinking populations. Between 2025 and 2050, the share of population ages 65 and older in countries experiencing population declines will almost double from 17.3% to 30.9%. In countries whose populations are not shrinking, that age group will expand from 3.2% to 5.5 %. . imf.org