Surviving to Long-Term Thriving through Augmented Entrepreneurial Resourcefulness: An Extension to Mcmullen's "Real Growth through Entrepreneurial Resourcefulness: Insights on the Entropy Problem from Andy Weir's The Martian ".

The article extends J. S. McMullen's 2024 entrepreneurial growth model inspired by the novel and the film "The Martian", arguing that incorporating AI and 3D printing into a closed-system environment allows for continuous, rather than just survival-driven, growth. It proposes that labor substitution, independent knowledge generation, and structural capital transformation can drive exponential growth, unlike McMullen’s entropy-limited model. By focusing on human desires for comfort and long-term innovation cycles, the model envisions sustained wealth creation even in constrained environments.