These all have the same fundamental error -- the presumption that progress and faster progress is desirable. With today's luxuries but half the people, everyone

These all have the same fundamental error -- the presumption that progress and faster progress is desirable. With today's luxuries but half the people, everyone could live pretty well, and have meaningful work. Genuinely, if we focused less on driving progress at all costs and focused more on "well being for all", we wouldn't even need to reduce the population. We have the capacity to provide a safe, comfortable, low effort society for everyone today. We just choose not to arrange ourselves to pursue it.