If we stopped adding to that debt and started to pay it back at a rate of $1,000 per second, it would take nearly 8,000 years. Instead, we keep adding to it. And it gets even worse—if it took creating $185 trillion of debt to get only $46 trillion of growth, I’ll show you in chapter 4 why it will take at least double that amount of debt to get another $46 trillion of growth.
