Convergence with Destiny

Convergence with Destiny was a feature article written by Marshall T. Savage published in November 1997, in the 5th of 13 issues of the First Millennial Foundation / Living Universe Foundation's publication, Distant Star.

In it, he explains his disillisionment with the movement he founded and explains obliquely his departure from the FMF as it is renamed to LUF.

It was the only feature article he wrote for Distant Star, and it is his only major published work besides his magnum opus, The Millennial Project (1992).

In it, he expresses his realization that over the next century we will all be rich, thanks to economic growth. And this will make all things possible:

Let's talk in terms of GDP, gross domestic product. The GDP per U.S. worker today is $57,000. In 1890 the GDP per U.S. worker, in constant 1996 dollars, was $12,000. The leverage here is 4.75. An equivalent leverage in GDP over the coming century will put the GDP per worker in 1996 dollars at $270,000. If hours worked are taken into account, the relatively lazy modern American with his five-day week, his eight-hour day, his vacations, and his loafing on the job, actually produces something like seven times as much per time worked as the average worker in 1890.

— Marshall T. Savage, Convergence with Destiny, Distant Star, Volume 5, November 1997