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We entered the 20c with ~1.5Bp, and didn't hit 3 until we were ready to land on the moon. We have a loooong way to go before we run out of people to run an adv
by michael1999 5y ago
We entered the 20c with ~1.5Bp, and didn't hit 3 until we were ready to land on the moon. We have a loooong way to go before we run out of people to run an advanced economy.
As for the grey-aristocracy: it's already here, just unevenly distributed. Bruce Sterling described it vividly in Holy Fire (1996).
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/359390.Holy_Fire https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/359390.Holy_Fire
- throwawaygal7 5y agoIf the entire world had south Korean levels of fertility it would take... 70 or 80 years to end up with a couple billion people again. In reality the problem right now is we are adding about 100m people living on two dollars or less a day every year but nobody has any real solutions for getting them above the poverty line or slowing the growth of that segment.
- michael1999 5y agoWhat’s wrong with what we’ve been doing? Emancipate and educate women, vaccinate and educate children, and suppress the worst of male-supremacy ideologues, and fertility comes down.
- tsol 5y agoRising economic outcomes have led to that, not some sort of push for women's rights or the death of male supremacist ideologies. Just look at India or China. Only in the most metropolitan areas are they even close to thinking like that on a large scale.
- throwawaygal7 5y ago100mish people are born on two dollars or less a day and it's not slowing down , that's what.