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Humanity will shrink in the future: 97% of countries will experience negative growth by 2100
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this post was submitted on 21 Mar 2024
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What is the bad news?
Only bad for nations that are shrinking too fast, like some nordic nations and South Korea. But most other nations will benefit from the less population growth rate.
Current difficulties caring for elderly will continue to get worse, as the population of working age people continues to shrink faster than the population of elderly
We could do like Logan's run
True. Exemplify the YoLo lifestyle and go out in a big celebration when you’re at the top of your game
More submarines for the rich!
The economic system built on infinite growth will also collapse and leave most of those people in inescapable cut throat poverty and starvation
They won't care. The investors can't think past next quarter.
So you're saying we should sharpen the national razor?
Someone wants people to believe we need to grow... The environmental impact says otherwise.
We won’t starve if we eat the rich. Once they are gone, we can build a new economic system.
Last time they did it in africa... well I'm sure the following starvation was just a coincidence.
The problem with cannibalism is that once you develop a taste for it, it becomes difficult to stop
We'll be lucky if it goes that smooth. Usually the whole thing at least partially collapses, followed by is a few hundred years of dark age to sort things out and then rebuilding starts with a new system in place for another go.
Personally, I’m counting on Zephram Cochran flagging down some Vulcans to help us out. Rebuilding should take 100 years tops
The worse the world becomes, the more I wonder if Posadas was right.
What if Cochran turns out to be a drunk disillusioned Musk in this timeline?
Wasn’t he kinda in that timeline? But he had Lilly to keep him in line, and I wouldn’t want to cross her!
He was a selfish drunk, but he had the spirit where it counts. Musk has no spirit, hes just a man child.
Hmmm… true… I dunno. I think Cochran really changed his tune when he met the Vulcans and it was supposed to be symbolic of the change humanity would undergo.
But would Musk undergo the same change? Eh, you’re right: I doubt he would be so altruistic under the same circumstances.