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Maybe I'm missing something, but it also seems innumerate. It's possible that the resources needed for each additional person reduces the quality of life for al
by AlexandrB 3y ago
Maybe I'm missing something, but it also seems innumerate. It's possible that the resources needed for each additional person reduces the quality of life for all other people enough to more than entirely cancel out their own contribution to the "sum". The resulting sequence would approach a sum of 0 as the population increases instead of always increasing with population.
- kerkeslager 3y agoI mean, you can make up any model of the situation in a void, which is why this whole discussion doesn't matter. What if it's a normal distribution, and there's a number of people where quality of life is maximized? Since we're making shit up now, what if it's an exponential decay and there's a number of people where quality of life jumps from negative infinity to positive infinity?