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Why does it follow that efficient automation will cause population levels to not matter?

• dumbfoundded 7y ago
  I think the idea is that humanity is basically a pyramid scheme. It takes more and more people to cover the debts and improve the world they received from the previous generations. I don't particularly agree with this viewpoint.
  • sgt101 7y ago
    Who's debts are the world's population covering? Are we in hoc to Mars?!
    • dumbfoundded 7y ago
      Here are a few debts we have: - Governmental fiscal debt - Global climate change - Societal debt. By this I mean, the previous generation left an unstable society at risk of collapse for the next generation. I would imagine a person born in 1920 would feel this way. As a programmer, I would frame this as "tech" debt for our social institutions.