Explosive growth? Interesting. But at some point, human civilization hits a saturation point. There’s only so much people can eat, wear, drive, stream, or hoard. Extending that logic, there’s a natural ceiling to demand - one that even AGI can’t code its way out of.<p>Sure, you might double the world economy for a decade, but then what? We’ll run out of people to sell things to. And that’s when things get weird.<p>To sustain growth, we’d have to start manufacturing demand itself - perhaps by turning autonomous robots into wage-earning members of society. They’d buy goods, subscribe to services, maybe even pay taxes. In effect, they become synthetic consumers fueling a post-human economy.<p>I call this post-human consumerism. It’s when the synthesis of demand would hit the next gear - if we keep moving in this direction.