Everything we know about their behavior indicates that they now have a very strong motivation to increase production.

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PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel, for example, has argued since the most recent stock collapse that only dramatic new breakthroughs in energy and food production technologies will save the economy from an extended period of Malthusian zero-sum behavior.

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