If Bitcoin fails I agree with you. This will probably be a long and bloody route, but... Productivity gains increase exponentially with the total population of people who have achieved some basic standard of living. AI can not solve human problems; it is a tool for humans to solve problems. The population is shrinking because central banking is stealing the value that should be passed on through technology decreasing prices. They openly admit stealing our global productivity gains, plus 2% minimum. Decreasing your wage and increasing prices, making life more difficult every year. If Bitcoin prevents inflation, we can, for the first time, see all productivity passed to the consumer. I believe this will massively increase the human population, which in return exponentially increases our problem-solving abilities. More people, more compute. Then becoming a push-pull thing. It will most likely happen in grand accelerating cycles where our problem-solving abilities expand the carrying capacity of the planet, followed by population growth to fill the space. Or, at times, the opposite — population overshoots carrying capacity, quality of living goes down, creating new problems for us to over-solve. We are probably already in these cycles. They are on a scale of a few hundred years at this point, getting faster each cycle. With central banking being a weaponized cancer affecting the natural cycles. It basically stole 100 years of technological growth passing on to the population, through the process of siphoning the value from the cycles, preventing it from growing further. Interesting to think about what would have happened if we discovered sound money before Central banking. Compounding growth into all fields building off others success limited only by our population size. Would we have cities on Mars, doubled our life expectancy? Most likely achieved more than we can imagine.