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Feb 2, 2021Liked by Rohit Krishnan

Anyone who doesn't see SpaceX (or others like it, I'm not married to Musk) as enormous progress towards the 3rd Industrial Revolution is sleeping on the economic impact we can expect from asteroid mining; that's our next projected source of exponential decrease in costs for a wide category of materials that are relevant in modern manufacturing.

Further, renewable energy is a huge step forward in our economics; the only reason this isn't overwhelmingly apparent to fans of "Stagnation" is that many of the costs of our previous energy strategy are diffuse and externalized.

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