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I've just read a great and trippy book which resonates a lot with this kind of thinking, Geometry for Ocelots (https://amzn.to/3jQeVxt https://amzn.to/3jQeVxt), it's a sci-fi which basically attempts to deal with how intelligent species accelerate their demise by owerusing, and over-spending resources in their natural environment. A big part of a proposed solution was "moderation" -- but never specified how it would be done. This article kind of starts thinking about that "moderation" bit in real-world terms.