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> We either can have 200M happy ppl living decent lives or 10B poor ppl False dichotomy. We can have both (and probably do - and you are likely one of the 200M

• Borg3 3y ago
  Oh, thats not that simple. Curves in nature are never linear or exponental. They are mixed, depending on several factors. But always you will hit plateau. Not understanding it means you are poor at math. Just take a look at human population graph past last 2000 years. And why growth was such small? Answer is simple, energy density. Once humans started to use coal and later oil (high density energy sources) they could utilize machines to do all the hard work and so, we could grow futher. (I skip other importand achivements, but they are directly linked to energy density anyway). As for the winner, oh well.. Yeah, im lucky one that I born in western world, I can have nice job and live in pretty fine conditions. But also, I am not person that will deny such live to other people, like all those fanatics saying we can have 10B ppl living. Yeah, we can.. in shitty conditions. But why those saying that usually are very rich having serveral huge houses and acres of land for themselfs, leaving others in small flats and working hard. Again, we cannot afford that for 10B ppl.