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Why not? I mean nobody creates the rules except us.
by refurb 4y ago
Why not?
I mean nobody creates the rules except us.
- lm28469 4y agoYeah I guess, if you don't care about sustainability, pollution, the old vs young ratio (which brings societal issues such as retirement, healthcare, old age care), destruction of natural habitat, &c. The "no rules" mindset is exactly what brought us in this position. We could be 30b actually, maybe more, there are no hard limits if you discard every variables...
- account42 4y agoThe old vs young ratio is only a problem when you have fewer kids than previous generations. Which is why it is now being used as an argument for immigration.
- Gud 4y agoMother nature creates the rules. Eventually we'll find out what the balance was.
- MichaelZuo 4y agoOnly if the simulation hypothesis is false!
- refurb 4y agoWe’ve already broken the rules of nature already, we can do it again.
- slothtrop 4y agoMaybe it's violates another rule we like, and we can't keep both. If we posit that it's a positive thing that anyone in the world have unrestricted capacity to own a home, vehicle, pursue happiness and basically make use of resources as a Westerner does, then keeping the number lean could respect that - if the resource extraction, land encroachment and other externalities from demand become a problem at scale. The fantasy from the greens is that Westerners are "consuming more and more". Really, there are just more people consuming.