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There is never less of life, just fewer humans. When humans disappear other life takes their place. Also the economics of Black Death shows that if you live in

There is never less of life, just fewer humans. When humans disappear other life takes their place. Also the economics of Black Death shows that if you live in a country with a declining population the rich are forced to pay the middle class more, unlike a country with an increasing population whether through birth or through immigration. The Economic Impact of the Black Death of 1347–1352 http://msh.councilforeconed.org/documents/978-1-56183-758-8-activity-lesson-15.pdf http://msh.councilforeconed.org/documents/978-1-56183-758-8-...

inawarminister 7y ago
The problem, of course, is that modern technological base NEEDS a certain amount of consumers for mass production to makes sense. We aren't living in an agricultural-trade system anymore. Besides, we need fresh bodies to populate heavenly colonies.
- devoply 7y ago
  1/2 the world lives in extreme poverty, we have no shortage of consumers. despite not living in an agricultural-trade system nothing has changed. if the economy is growing but the population is shrinking than either the working class should have more money or the rich and their corporations should. you should be able to get the same amount of tax out of either than you lost through the shrinking population. the rich and the corporations have shifted the tax burden to the growing population which helps them make more money in multiple ways... by paying less to workers because of more competition and then passing on the entire tax burden to the wage earners. we have no heavenly colonies and when we do they will support very very small populations, say at most a million people probably 10,000 years in the future... in the meantime we'd be lucky to get 100 people to create a self-sustaining colony.
  - needle0 7y ago
    >>1/2 the world lives in extreme poverty, we have no shortage of consumers. More like 10%: https://howmuch.net/articles/people-living-in-extreme-poverty-2018 https://howmuch.net/articles/people-living-in-extreme-povert...

inawarminister 7y ago

The problem, of course, is that modern technological base NEEDS a certain amount of consumers for mass production to makes sense. We aren't living in an agricultural-trade system anymore. Besides, we need fresh bodies to populate heavenly colonies.

devoply 7y ago
1/2 the world lives in extreme poverty, we have no shortage of consumers. despite not living in an agricultural-trade system nothing has changed. if the economy is growing but the population is shrinking than either the working class should have more money or the rich and their corporations should. you should be able to get the same amount of tax out of either than you lost through the shrinking population. the rich and the corporations have shifted the tax burden to the growing population which helps them make more money in multiple ways... by paying less to workers because of more competition and then passing on the entire tax burden to the wage earners. we have no heavenly colonies and when we do they will support very very small populations, say at most a million people probably 10,000 years in the future... in the meantime we'd be lucky to get 100 people to create a self-sustaining colony.
- needle0 7y ago
  >>1/2 the world lives in extreme poverty, we have no shortage of consumers. More like 10%: https://howmuch.net/articles/people-living-in-extreme-poverty-2018 https://howmuch.net/articles/people-living-in-extreme-povert...