Robots will take care of us. Meanwhile we'll be begging for death and they will keep us alive -_-
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they're hiring caregivers like crazy in my state
Unionizing opportunity.
Ha, and then they will continue to pay them shit and then fire everyone. The us is not union compatible with current us labour laws.
I mean they should still do it, but paying jobs are thin enough that their will always be scabs.
Infinite growth of human population would hit a hard ceiling on earth resources real soon.
People not having babies is a good thing.
The 1st 40years of my life i was told I had to worry about over population, in the last 5 I've been told I now need to worry about "demographic collapse"
I agree. I chose not to have kids for various reasons. And my "skilled" lol trade skills will die with me.
It's not about infinite growth.
Given that not everyone lives to old age, we would expect children to outnumber old people even in a zero (or slightly negative) percent growth scenario.
Sure but lets allow the world population to naturally contract to 500 million or so before we start pushing for replacement numbers
Right on. The way the way population is right now, every time a chunk of mountain or glacier falls down, or a river floods, tens of thousands die or are displaced.
In 1960 there were 2-3 billion people on the planet. Now it's 3x as many cars, mouths to feed, homes to heat/cool.
In Bangladesh there are over 1 million Rohingan refugees who've been there for TEN YEARS. They can't work there, have no country to move to, have to live on $6-12 a month for food.
It's actually more than 2-3x as many cars I believe, given cultural changes since 1960 as well
look at the bright side, in about 10 years, housing will become affordable again
Only if there was a way to sustainably provide for an older population would that be not concerning. Otherwise, it's gonna turn convervative af everywhere pretty soon.
Sounds like a situation that will self correct in a few decades, no?
All of us dying alone while some fools bring more children for the billionaires to abuse.
Technically, probably yes, one way or another...
People think we need to keep growing the population. We're stuck on a single planet together. If we could live on the moon or Mars it would be a different story, but I think it's perfectly fine to decrease the population size back to 1980s levels, at least.
And we're talking about the elderly who don't add any productivity to the planet too.
Sure, some minority of boomers have a good attitude and want to work for the planet and the future generations, but the reality is that a majority of them have piss poor values and are now a net drain on society.
Plenty of people in other age groups that are also a net drain on society. We won't get far if we don't see it as the class issue that it mostly is.
Ua the issue isnt age groups but the distribution of resources and access to political power of different classes.
An 89 year old member of their local community centre will always be more useful to the humanity , and evem the planet , than a 29 year old billionaire lol
Other age groups don't entire half the damn economy. Boomers are a class unto themselves.
Billionaires collectively own about 10 trillion in the US, Boomers collectively over 80 trillion.
Just going with the US because it's the best known example. It's not very dissimilar in other western countries but the US is the worst I believe.
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Karma for them being dicks.
would it be better if the population was growing past 9bn?
There's a stable population the ecosystem can support and I'm pretty sure 9bn is too fuckin many.
not that I'm volunteering to free up space tho... there's a whole lot of techbro chuds who think there's way too many people, but their motivations are pretty genocidal tbh.
honestly we're fucked in either direction, but I suspect there's a lot of reasons the population total will go down once the climate crisis starts shifting millions of people around.
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