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Honest questions: Can we maintain our current tech level with 2 billion people? And if we can't, is that fair to future generations? Aren't we condemning the

• wkat4242 3y ago
  Of course we can. Even with a lot less. We can automate the hell out of everything :) In fact there's a big concern that there won't be enough work. Even hypercapitalist countries like the US are thinking about UBI now. Food will be a bigger problem but less people also means less food needed.
  • lm28469 3y ago
    > We can automate the hell out of everything :) That's what they told us in the 60s/70s/80s and we're still working as much while our standards are lowering but ok, we'll automagically fix things, we're just waiting for the right time
    • seec 3y ago
      Standards are lowering precisely because there are too many people chasing the same ressources... You can't share everything beyond a certain point. The boomerism view of infinite growth is incredibly stupid especially if you start evaluating material requirement for a standard rich boomer lifestyle. The only reason we could have so many people on the planet at once is because almost half of them live in poverty, close to animal standard with some human technology sprinkled in some place... It's just shortsighted to believe that having so many people was sustainable in the first place.