Oddjob
Merry fucking Xmas to you assholes
I would say its actually based on private property and monetary exchange.I disagree, the worlds economic model is based on growth. The opposite of of what you suggest is more likely without it.
Hans Rosling has some interesting videos about population growth if anyone's interested.
Growth in classical econonic terms is a by product of the 3 p's. Population, productivity, and workforce participation. The first has sustainable physical limits which we have already breached. The third has a hard limit. The second has doubled many thousands of times, and is what we should focus on.
For an interesting thought exercise think about how many people were directly involved in all the technological breakthroughs since WW2 we take for granted. Certainly not in the hundreds of millions. Thats not to say everyone else is worthless, just that our modern standard of living relies on a small proportion of the global population.
I'm not advocating for some Randian world ruled by ubermensch. But I'm pretty sure we could go back to a 1900 level of population (1.6 billion) and the human race would be a lot better off than it is now.
How we get there is the tricky part. If we manage global warming somehow, population control will be the next big challenge.
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