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> No amount of technical development can keep up with exponential increase in resource usage. People having children doesn't mean exponential increase in popul
by lowkey_ 5y ago
> No amount of technical development can keep up with exponential increase in resource usage.
People having children doesn't mean exponential increase in population. The US has an average children per family of 1.93 as of 2019, which actually means the population will shrink.
> adding more people until everyone has to live a poor destitute life wont make people more creative
This is a common fallacy that wealth is a fixed pie, and adding more people into the equation will make existing people poorer. This isn't true — wealth is created!