At the scale of mankind, the universe is effectively infinite. The sun has another billion year to go and outputs so much energy it's virtually infinite to us.
We are not adding materials (...yet, mining asteroids isn't that far fetched anymore), but we also aren't removing any either and can recycle old stuff into new stuff. Also we get a constant supply of virtually limitless energy from the sun.
Economic growth is an accounting measure, and so it can definitely be limitless.
Easy to say when you live in the first world.
I personally love it. Being able to search "Tom at the beach drinking a cocktail" and get all the relevant pictures is magic.
That is really playing with words... Android (the OS people run on their phone) was originally developed by a company bought by Google, which then funded it, made the overwhelming number of contributions to it for 19 years, does the marketing, certification plus all the non-open source elements that make the experience what 99.99% of users get everyday when they use their phone.
But all "successes" are gonna be years old. You don't turn something like Chromebook into an overnight success. It takes years for an ecosystem to grow, users to find use cases, software revisions to polish the product, word of mouth, etc.
For comparison the Apple watch came out in 2015 and Airpods in 2016. What other successes has Apple had in the past 7 years? Maybe their AR thing will take off, but if it does it's probably 5-10 years from becoming a mass market product.
Android? Google Photo? Google Pixel? Google Pay? Google Apps? Chrome? Chromebook? Google Drive? Chromecast? Android Auto?
They launched a ton of successful stuff since Maps came out in 2005
Certains impôts ont été supprimés mais globalement, la pression fiscale n'a jamais été aussi élevée et atteint un record absolu en 2022 à 45,4% du PIB. Le gros de la dépense est en fait orienté vers les aides directes, de fait on a privilégié distribuer de l'argent à tout le monde plutôt que de financer le service public par ex.
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Il suffit de voir le succès de la gauche dans les zones urbaines riches pour douter... Paris est largement à gauche par ex, alors que c'était longtemps une ville de droite.
Indeed we can. That's not to say we should keep burning those resources right now, but the carbon is not disappearing into an alternate universe either.