When a group sees endless growth as the only option, endless games with money will be played. On the other hand, a global movement towards fewer children is becoming prominent in many countries.

There's no reason to turn everyone's life into a poorhouse treadmill for the sole benefit of the few who respond by getting all Bond-Villain on us.

For instance, publishing had become a moribund circle of cronies and Amazon's support of electronic books pressured them into being better players, but it hardly mattered when all kinds of new writers got to enter the field.

My hobby is reading, and my Kindle Unlimited subscription is actually a budget tactic. And there's a lot of bad writing there, but also some really good stuff.

That's using one's power for food. Dr. Davis, of Wheatbelly fame, writes in that book how short-stalked, high yield gluten grains contributed to our present health crisis.

And people vary greatly in how much protein they get from plant sources, but 30% loss is the stat most quoted. We know that now...