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Structuring the economy to depend on an ever increasing birthrate feels like a ponzi scheme to me. Obviously there is an upper limit. We don't know what it is,
by VyseofArcadia 2y ago
Structuring the economy to depend on an ever increasing birthrate feels like a ponzi scheme to me. Obviously there is an upper limit. We don't know what it is, but someday we'll hit it and the scheme will come crashing down.
It's painful in the short term, but in the long term maybe it makes more sense to let the population level off to a stable point that's somewhat short of the maximum number of humans we can squeeze onto Earth.
- rayiner 2y agoWe don’t need an “ever increasing birth rate.” But definitionally any sustainable society needs a birth rate that is, on average, around 2.1. Which is a figure that no developed society is currently attaining. It would be one thing if societies were trying to temporarily reduce birth rates to shrink the population, but that’s not what’s happening. There’s no reason to believe the rates will just bounce back once the population hits whatever you think is a sustainable number.