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But high productivity depends on large-scale division of labor. If the labor force compresses very far, can you maintain the high productivity? I don't want t
by AnimalMuppet 2y ago
But high productivity depends on large-scale division of labor. If the labor force compresses very far, can you maintain the high productivity?
I don't want to live in the 1920s, or worse, the 1820s. Can the population shrink, and we still maintain our level of tech (and even maintain some progress)? How far can the population shrink, and we maintain that?
- toomuchtodo 2y agoSomeone else can figure out if this is sustainable when women have agency, autonomy, and self determination. Humanity can engineer a way out or suck it up. Are you advocating for quality of life and consumer excess over human suffering?
- 082349872349872 2y agoCan you scope that question a little more tightly? (frex, who is "we"?) I can tell you that I live in a country with a population well under 10% of the US', and memories of WWII giving us pretensions towards autarky, yet we still do cutting edge research, and most tourists consider the local standard of living reasonably high. (in particular, we do not rely upon —as in my memories of the US last century— having pools of day labourers standing around waiting at "the wall" to be at your beck and call for all your low-productivity economic needs)