And this was in a way very obvious to everybody for a simple reason, which is that growth was close to zero percent during most of the history of mankind.
و این پدیده به نوعی برای خیلی‌ها واضح بود به این دلیل ساده که رشد اقتصادی نزدیک به صفر در اکثر تاریخ وجود داشته است.