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(meta-comment: someone keeps posting population doomerism to HN. Why do you think this is relevant, or that a trend dipping negative for a while will inevitably
by hylaride 2y ago
(meta-comment: someone keeps posting population doomerism to HN. Why do you think this is relevant, or that a trend dipping negative for a while will inevitably continue that way?)
Probably because it's presented as a problem to solve (we don't know how we're economically going to deal with it) and engineers love a challenge, even when they're not experts in the field. So same reason why urban planning issues, etc often show up.
- acdha 2y agoAlso because it’s essential to the older capitalist mindset of continual growth which drives the valuation of most tech companies. The idea of stabilizing on a smaller level has really fallen out of favor over the past few decades, but it’s an existential threat for companies whose shareholders are accustomed to double-digit growth.