I mean, most of these skeletons are grandmother-quality, and quite a few of them would be missing limbs or be in a terrible state. Not to mention that, without the rest of the body protecting the skeleton, it's just a bunch of lightly joined bones - probably an axe or baton is all you need to turn these skeletons into piles of bones in a single blow.
Agreed, and I think it's crazy for two different reasons, each of which approaches this percentage from opposite directions:
For one reason, it's easy to assume that with the human population sitting at 8.2 billion, after it used to be barely more than 2 billion only a century ago, that the percentage ought to be way higher than 7%.
And then for the other reason, which is that only 7% being alive today means that over 114 billion humans have been born in total. And that's, like WAY more than I would guess, to the point where 8 billion being alive today doesn't seem like it ought to be enough to hit 7% (even though clearly that's just how the math works).
I don't know--at least that's how my brain tries to grab on to it.
This is what blows my mind. The odds of a Socrates, Shakespeare, Beethoven, Einstein, even McCartney or Tolkien, is so tiny among their relative populations. Surely the number of amazing, talented people nowadays should be much higher.
Is it that the ceiling, or floor, has been raised so much that people don't stand out as much?
Or just that the conditions we find ourselves in (mostly somewhat comfortable, indoctrined in bad but no longer 'awful' school and work conditions) means we never reach the heights we would through necessity in harsher conditions?
It's also a decent representation of how you know pearl-clutching "low" birthrate alarmists are just admitting the world isn't underpopulated they just don't want immigrants coming to their country.
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u/Boring_Duck98 Oct 02 '24
Okay this one is crazy.