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20,000 calories per day is not better than 10,000 calories per day. Thus, food has reached a point where enough no longer the problem, and if we made twice as much we probably would burn it not eat it.

As to stuff, it's content which tends to be the real limitation not the TV. And content can be unlimited we simply impose artificial limitations.




We are already throwing massive amounts of food away.

"Getting food from the farm to our fork eats up 10 percent of the total U.S. energy budget, uses 50 percent of U.S. land, and swallows 80 percent of all freshwater consumed in the United States. Yet, 40 percent of food in the United States today goes uneaten. This not only means that Americans are throwing out the equivalent of $165 billion each year, but also that the uneaten food ends up rotting in landfills as the single largest component of U.S. municipal solid waste where it accounts for a large portion of U.S. methane emissions." [1]

[1] https://www.nrdc.org/sites/default/files/wasted-food-IP.pdf


There are some advantages to being over provisioned though: it is more resilient to disruption and downturns for one.




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