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"Smart people" also told us that heavier-than-air flight was impossible, the sound barrier was impenetrable, the Earth is flat, the universe is fixed, etcetera.There will always be growth because there will always be people desiring to improve their lot in life.
It's basic physics that the economy can not grow forever. Every marginal increase in output requires a marginal increase in inputs, and inputs are not infinite. No strength of desire can create something from nothing.
Scientists figured learned this fact over a century ago. Most economists are still blissfully ignorant of said fact.
Consider, if for only a moment, that all we know now isn't all there is to know and/or worth knowing.
Smart people are often wrong. But even dumb people realize that you can't make something from nothing. Producing something requires inputting something, and there are a limited number of inputs in the world.
You don't need to know the limit of our current understanding to know that we can not make something from nothing.