all you have to do to increase pig production is ...breed more sows, instead of butchering them.
And those sows will birth 5 sows, and those five will birth 25, 125, etc., etc.
And those sows will birth 5 sows, and those five will birth 25, 125, etc., etc.
Come on. You can't even imagine a scenario where demand outstrips potential supply? What if aliens demanded we give them a huge and ever increasing number of pigs to feed their exponentially growing space empire?
A ridiculously high limit is still a limit.
If the demand is high enough, pigs will be bred in penthouse bathtubs, planets will be colonized, made habitable, and turned into pig farms.
What I'm trying to say is there's no artificial scarcity, no hard limit of 21 million, as is the case with bitcoin and Beanie Babies.
As I said, scarcity, in this case, is simply a product of demand, as in "I can't make more money by breeding more pigs."
Only if time is not a limiting factor. If a pig farmer Get's a fill-or-kill order for a million pigs and he has a month to fill it, and he has only two breeding pigs, then it doesn't matter how much the buyer is willing to pay.
Please refer to the red, bold text. ty.
Actually there IS a hard limit. What has not yet been pointed out in this conversation is that producing more pigs is not free, and as your pig production increases, costs will increase as well, at some point exponentially. And at that point lies your hard limit.
Even reductio ad absurdum doesn't help you here. Exponential cost increase can always be matched by exponential cost (price).
Care to take this further? Perhaps suggest that the amount of energy/matter in the universe is the hard limit?
