It's more that 'wandering off into the wild and doing your own thing until society settles down/it being worth it to try again' was an option. Now we're at pop

It's more that 'wandering off into the wild and doing your own thing until society settles down/it being worth it to try again' was an option. Now we're at population levels that require some amount of technological complexity to maintain and therefore a certain level of complex organization.