Money isn't real, so "infinite growth" is achievable. If you can value bad digital art at $69M an image, you can grow your economy by 3%/year for as long as you want.
The better question is what we're "growing" in an economy that seems more interested in "creative destruction" than building anything of lasting value. We can stack landfills on top of landfills forever and call it growth, just so long as the guys in charge of the landfills get to feel richer than they did last quarter.
Money isn't real, so "infinite growth" is achievable. If you can value bad digital art at $69M an image, you can grow your economy by 3%/year for as long as you want.
The better question is what we're "growing" in an economy that seems more interested in "creative destruction" than building anything of lasting value. We can stack landfills on top of landfills forever and call it growth, just so long as the guys in charge of the landfills get to feel richer than they did last quarter.