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Malthus Was Wrong

In 1798, economist Thomas Malthus predicted humanity would hit a wall in the 1800s. Population growth would outpace food production.

He was dead wrong.

Malthus missed that we don't know what we'll discover tomorrow. That changes everything.

There's an old story about a prisoner sentenced to death. He tells the king: "Give me a year and I'll teach your horse to talk."

Another prisoner asks him, "Are you insane?"

The first prisoner shrugs: "A lot can happen in a year. The king might die. The horse might die. I might die. Or maybe I'll actually teach the horse to talk."

He has no idea how to make a horse talk. But he doesn't believe knowledge has a ceiling. In a year, he might crack it. Or fake it. Or discover something the king wants more.

When someone says "impossible," they mean "impossible with what we know right now." But right now is never the full picture.

P.S. Electricity. Semiconductors. GPS. Vaccines. The printing press. The internet. Everything you use daily was "impossible" a few centuries ago. Is creativity the real king?