Foolish Folly

While it’s obvious to all that the public debt, world population, and numbers of known galaxies, solar panels, divorces, live births, live economists all continually increase, there appears no concomitant decrease in anything. This goes against the plethora of conservation laws known to science. Fortunately, in a slightly modified form, Shakespeare forecast this conundrum “The trouble is not in our stars but in our numbers” Happy April Fool’s Day!