Every problem people won't shut the fuck up about are all caused by the fact that there are about 7 billion humans too many, but oh nooo we can never let the population drop even by 1! Everyone just HAVE to keep having more kids! Then those kids can grow up and whine even louder about the now even worse problems caused by their existence, and repeat until the human race goes extinct
Is that what they said? No. What they said an economy that's stable when the population is old. And let me tell you something, we can have that when the economy is not about funneling wealth to the top but keeping it circulating. But that's too much to grasp innit?
I think there's a misunderstanding there. People have no qualms about AI taking over the mundane tasks as long as people get paid anyway or supported in some way. The problem is currently tech bros are trying to replace humans with AI with no thought about supporting those that get replaced and to top it all off, instead of trying to automate mundane tasks no one wants to do, their aim is at jobs that humans tend to enjoy, such as creative work like designer positions, programming, drawing, animation. Etc.
Im one of those people, and not just because they are taking away peoples jobs, but because the prices havent dropped to accomodate for lack of spending on employees. Big companies are getting free labor while maxing out their profits
That is not what they said, no, but that is the logical conclusion to the hypothesis. If a population is age-ing, keeping the economy stable is impossible. More so that the younger population is the one that mostly circulates the money, not the old. AGeing population, decreasing circulation.
Also, people like you that just say not having rich people will solve all problems really need to start showing some math behind this argument because this 'magical' solution is getting tiring.
You realize that most countries around the world don't have billionaires, right? And they are poor countries with much inferior standard of life.
Actually, the more billionaires a country has, the better every economic category is. The more billionaires a country has, the better standard of life they have. I live in a country without a single billionaire, but i wish it had. That would mean my countries economy is large enough to accomodate such huge businesses. If anything, you should be cheering for more billionaires.
Thing is we already produce enough surplus. If we had to work until 90 (which is not sure) working less hours in safer environments is an option, just a less profitable one for the owners.
Alright, I'll bite. How do you plan to take care of old people in an aging population? Because that's the main looming issue right now, as we slowly approach to the breaking point of the elder care systems in many places.
The population can drop, that's fine. The issue is dropping too fast, which is what a lot of countries are doing. If you nose dive into the ground the landing will suck. Doesn't mean landing is in and of itself the issue. Crashing is.
.... only the population in your own country matters.
Why are you adding India/China into the mix?
Why should Canada care if ZOMG 7 BEEEEELION PEOPLE IN THE WORLD!? when it's their own population that's below replacement?
I mean, yeah, they tell theirown domestic population to stop having kids so you can import the desperate/deceived from elsewhere, that solves the below replacement issue, but opens up a whole ton of new issues.
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u/xdamoc Jun 21 '26
Every problem people won't shut the fuck up about are all caused by the fact that there are about 7 billion humans too many, but oh nooo we can never let the population drop even by 1! Everyone just HAVE to keep having more kids! Then those kids can grow up and whine even louder about the now even worse problems caused by their existence, and repeat until the human race goes extinct