My understanding was that the parent's parent was saying that the expectation of returns in a mutual fund is predicated on continued economic growth, predicated on there being more people in the future to enact all that growth. Society has switched from pensions to individual retirement investment. The expectation of there being more money in the future remains the same.
Snap, I forgot. Well, BUT, if the 10 billion peak comes by 2100, we're statistically covered. :DD Tail end of carrying capacity economic growth gaaang!! xDD
People reading this a century from now: hey you should've colonized the Solar System with orbital habitats neck deep in asteroid belt platinum, kids those days smh.
