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Wait, what? In a world where the population keeps increasing, automation is and will continue to drive unemployment, and environmental destruction is rampant..
by andrewclunn 10y ago
Wait, what? In a world where the population keeps increasing, automation is and will continue to drive unemployment, and environmental destruction is rampant... you're concerned that we're going to die out for lack of breeding?
- AnthonyMouse 10y ago> In a world where the population keeps increasing, automation is and will continue to drive unemployment, and environmental destruction is rampant... you're concerned that we're going to die out for lack of breeding? Neither unemployment nor environmental destruction is incompatible with population decline. The unemployment rate is independent of the population size, because fewer people means less demand which means proportionally fewer jobs. And unchecked evil corporations can perfectly well automate environmental destruction and carry it out with a minimum number of people.
- ThrowawayR2 10y agoYou might want to look at specifically _where_ the population keeps increasing. It isn't in the West where we have modern social values but rather, um, less enlightened places. The United States is currently below replacement birth rate and Japan dramatically so. A culture and society which devalues having children and raising them properly, even as a side effect of a nobler purpose, is one that will die out and be replaced with another.