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> Has anything ever grown that fast before?

Cancer. Burkitt Lymphoma takes a couple of days to double in size.

It’s important to understand that infinite growth inside a finite system is impossible. At some point growth has to stop, either by eliminating the growing organism or it killing the host.

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Well, unlike the economy I can’t grow in size rapidly. (And if I did I’d just have another major problem.)

Induced demand and limitless cheap human-quality labor can possibly grow the pie very fast, though even then, you start running into the earth’s finite resources eventually. But it is possible that they are worth much more than $2 trillion long before that.

But that is why I said you can’t just safely assume 15x multiples to continue.

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