Most of us can't be all-stars if all-stars are billionaires or multi-millionaires, but the real truth is that not even a single person needs to be an all-star if we're going by that. One problem -- and this doesn't necessarily disprove or disagree with anything you've said -- is that a lot of people get into entrepreneurship these days with the goal of becoming a star or sorts, rather than creating a profitable business.
"What makes the intuition so difficult is that usually, all things are not equal. In the case of agriculture, for example, the number of calories consumed in the world is relatively stable at any price, so in a simple model, any advance in technology that makes farmworkers more productive has to be offset by a reduction in the number of farmworkers."
This is not quite true, or not solely. In this case, we can afford to be less efficient and spend said resources to feed animals so we can consume more and cheaper meat.
Most of us can't be all-stars if all-stars are billionaires or multi-millionaires, but the real truth is that not even a single person needs to be an all-star if we're going by that. One problem -- and this doesn't necessarily disprove or disagree with anything you've said -- is that a lot of people get into entrepreneurship these days with the goal of becoming a star or sorts, rather than creating a profitable business.
"What makes the intuition so difficult is that usually, all things are not equal. In the case of agriculture, for example, the number of calories consumed in the world is relatively stable at any price, so in a simple model, any advance in technology that makes farmworkers more productive has to be offset by a reduction in the number of farmworkers."
This is not quite true, or not solely. In this case, we can afford to be less efficient and spend said resources to feed animals so we can consume more and cheaper meat.