The PRC Forum - Julian Simon (1of6)

Glad to have found a video of Julian Simon. I read an essay by him ages ago, but never thought of looking him up. Great channel. I actually found this video by watching another one of your videos.

"...technological progess can only advance so far."

this statement is completely outside of any evidence. history and educated consideration of the future based on current developments tells us otherwise.

Plus, the more the population grows, the more the money in circulation is worth. Because you end up with more goods and services competing for every dollar (or silver coin, etc.)

Heartless bastard.

Good Ol' Julian Simon, why o why did you have to leave us?

We've made astounding technological progress, such as going from whale oil to fossil oil. We such smart monkeys.

I would like to offer Julian Simon every last cent of my money for a living passenger pigeon. Or perhaps all the money that mankind ever created in our manifold civilizations for a living thylacine. Remember that economic theories have limits as well and don't always work in the real world no matter how tediously you might argue to be right.

@jiggystardust "every last cent of my money for a living passenger pigeon."

Here you go:
en. wikipedia. org/wiki/Mourning_ Dove#Closest_ species

"One of the most abundant and widespread of all North American birds. [...] individual Mourning Doves is estimated to be approximately 475 million"

"The Mourning Dove is considered to be the most closely related species to the Passenger Pigeon (Ectopistes migratorius) [...] a good choice for cloning the Passenger Pigeon in the future."

I'm Julian, too.

He's a little awkward to watch, but he has good points. Simon > Erhlich

"...technological progess can only advance so far."

What makes you assume that? People of every time period assume that they're in a time that is approaching the limit to human progress, but they're always far off.