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This is an argument that most people come to an initial conclusion for. Unfortunately economics doesn’t work this way. You need a steady supply of new borns t
by pixel_tracing 6y ago
This is an argument that most people come to an initial conclusion for.
Unfortunately economics doesn’t work this way.
You need a steady supply of new borns to support and be providers / producers who then in turn take care of the elderly this is the way society works and has for centuries.
A countries work output is determined to some large degree by their population size.
Just look at Japan and see how it stagnated as a world super power. Almost a century ago Japan was poised to be a world super power just like the US.
- fukmbas 6y agoFuk economics. I'm so tired of people putting capitalism before lives
- pixel_tracing 6y agoAs you post on your iPhone / Laptop enjoying the luxury of today’s modern world which is a result of macroeconomics among other things.
- Fricken 6y agoTIL having an iphone is more important than being alive.
- pixel_tracing 6y agoThis seems more like a YouTube comment thread than hacker news am I in the right place? :-)
- gremlinsinc 6y agoIs this the iPhone made in America or Communist China? Your argument is a strawman's at best, as is mine but I'm being facetious on purpose.
- Bancakes 6y agoHaving social media and these toy devices is semi-required. Plus, we don't get them for free, we pay a LOT of money for technology.
- owyn 6y agoA steady supply of producers is also an increasing number of consumers. At what point is that unsustainable? Which is more important in the long run, the competition to be a "world super power" or having a livable planet 1000 years from now? If economics is more a human invention and less a fundamental law of the universe, maybe "economics doesn't work this way" is something we can change.
- pixel_tracing 6y agoI am confused by what point you are trying to make, do you want us to live in the dark ages? Do country foreign policy relations just suddenly disappear? How does this plan for ending consumption work in your mind?