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Any system based on exponential growth will have almost all people become serfs as even if their capital grows it falls behind the growth of older capital
by justonceokay 9mo ago
Any system based on exponential growth will have almost all people become serfs as even if their capital grows it falls behind the growth of older capital
- verdverm 9mo agoIdeally our political systems act as a sigmoid filter over the growth, benefits, and harms
- themafia 9mo agoThe population grows exponentially. Why would you think the system would work against that?
- gordonhart 9mo agoPopulations grow logistically as they hit carrying capacity, it just looks exponential when it’s far from K
- themafia 9mo agoI'm dumb. I look at a chart of "world population" and I see an exponential curve that starts in the 1950s. K? Or are we going to work from the modern perspective that these peoples are somehow outside of our sphere of influence or concern?
- miniBill 9mo agoAre we looking at different data? If I look at https://ourworldindata.org/population-growth https://ourworldindata.org/population-growth - which lists data from 1950 - I see a basically linear growth?
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- justonceokay 9mo agoDoesn’t that make the situation even more dire? (If true, hard to believe when global population has negative second derivative)
- themafia 9mo agoIf you're practicing casual misanthropy I'm sure it looks very "dire" that no one is exercising the authority to artificially limit population growth. To me it just looks like "we're screwing around and falling behind on the work of actually advancing the cause of humanity." I'm hoping that's what you meant but around here it would be unusual. Blowing unaccounted billions on elite golden cows. For all this money would could have built a house for every homeless person in the USA.