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> Land is still just as important "Important", but not "just as important". Land used to be synonymous with wealth, because you needed land to support the peasants who grew the surplus that fed your army. Now? Now we have enough spare land to have national parks and substantial re-wilding programs. Labour is still important, but also not "just as important" — all the improvements from each of the three industrial rev…
We're already at that point though, at least in the developed world. Everyone's fed, clothed and housed even if they earn no money. But people still want money! They want more than the minimum. If we all have those yachts and personal factories, that'll be the default for unemployed people and everyone will still want money for whatever the poorest still can't afford, which I guess might be paying other people to do…
We're fed to the point we have obesity, but most of us still stop eating at a certain point.
We're oversupplied with material goods to the point that storage lockers for excess stuff is a big industry, but most of us don't hoard to that degree, and it's weird when we see people who do.
We're oversupplied with light to the point that we've got to remind ourselves to turn them down at night, but we do turn them off.
We do reach saturation points with these things, despite over-consumption.