This is a consequence of decreasing returns to scale! Without decreasing returns to scale, humans could buy some small territory before their labor is obsolete, and they could run a non-automated economy just on that small territory, and the fact that the territory is small would be no problem, since there are no decreasing returns to scale.
Well, that hits a limit no matter what. We have a physical scale set by the size of our own bodies. Also, I don’t believe there exists a single m2 of land on Earth where it would be legal to just go make your own country. People have tried with oceanic platforms, to mixed results.
This is a consequence of decreasing returns to scale! Without decreasing returns to scale, humans could buy some small territory before their labor is obsolete, and they could run a non-automated economy just on that small territory, and the fact that the territory is small would be no problem, since there are no decreasing returns to scale.
Well, that hits a limit no matter what. We have a physical scale set by the size of our own bodies. Also, I don’t believe there exists a single m2 of land on Earth where it would be legal to just go make your own country. People have tried with oceanic platforms, to mixed results.