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It's basically a "Tragedy of the Commons" situation across the board.
by Root_Denied 7mo ago
It's basically a "Tragedy of the Commons" situation across the board.
- wazoox 7mo agoSort of. With the salient point that nothing really exists, but the commons. The individual is nothing without the whole society around.
- nostrademons 7mo agoAlso sort of. Some form of social organization seems to be necessary for humans to function. But humans are also pretty good (well - relatively speaking, it usually seems to require a war or revolution) at changing that form of social organization as technology, population, and environmental conditions change. I think this is a very likely outcome. We aren't going to get continued population growth next generation; a significant number of the people needed for it will never be born. This is going to have ripple effects across wide swaths of political and economic organization. But you'll have pockets of population that basically barricade themselves off from the wider economic world and insulate themselves from its collapse, and then the people within them, along with whatever form of social organization they happen to adopt.