Light Has Burst Forth in Astonishing Abundance
Since 1830 global light abundance has increased by 43,874,900 percent. Every one percent increase in population corresponded to a 79,773 percent increase in global light abundance.
Economics professor Deirdre McCloskey has said the Great Enrichment from 1800 to the present increased per capita incomes by 3,000 percent.1 She is conservative. An index of 26 basic commodities found that abundance increased 5,762 percent.
Measured in time prices, which are the hours and minutes it takes to earn the money to buy something, many prices h…