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Eddy Vluggen wrote:
So you grow bigger lemons. Sweeter lemons. Add more water. But at a certain point, you will reach a max, simply due to the amount of people passing.

So you expand to another neighbourhood - buy up another lemonade stand there, hire workers, etc.

Eddy Vluggen wrote:
If that happens with our real economy, things collapse. If the economy collapses, war follows.

Not necessarily. Lack of growth does not equal economic collapse. For that matter, neither does shrinking ("recession").

Most Western countries have stable or declining populations, so population pressure is no longer a reason for growing the economy.

The major reason why economies must grow is to pay for the over-spending of governments. As almost every government on the planet spends more than it collects in taxes, it must do one of two things: print money, which causes inflation, lessening the governmental debt as a proportion of GDP, or have the economy grow, again lessening the governmental debt as a proportion of GDP.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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