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Why not the other way around - just kill everybody above a certain cutoff and feed them as soylent to the rest? They've already spent most of their productive y
by theworstshill 11y ago
Why not the other way around - just kill everybody above a certain cutoff and feed them as soylent to the rest? They've already spent most of their productive years anyway, right? Its equally ridiculous, isn't it?
- nilkn 11y agoNo, killing people and feeding them to others is several orders of magnitude more ridiculous than simply voluntarily having fewer children.
- theworstshill 11y agoEvery developed country in the world has a negative net population growth - natural growth excluding migration. The only reason the seniors are fed, clothed and washed is a a supply train of foreign nurses and home-care aides, usually from a country such as Philippines - which has a positive population growth. The entire economic system, as it is right now - in reality, is based on positive population growth. How is decreasing the number of kids is going to help?
- chillwaves 11y agoBecause automation means less need for labor, which solves the issue of "positive population growth" -- since it's not the bodies that are providing the economic activity, its their labor. But the bodies require more and more resources that our planet is not capable of sustaining. Hence, less babies.