• @ChicoSuave@lemmy.world
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    67 days ago

    You made the case for the inverse - agriculture had many more kids while technological advances are leading to fewer over time

    • Boomer Humor Doomergod
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      27 days ago

      I’m saying that there’s a minimum viable population for a technological society like ours and if we have too few people working it’s going to collapse.

      • @WoodScientist@sh.itjust.works
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        37 days ago

        Maybe it should collapse. Survival of the fittest applies just as well to societies and economic systems. If capitalism is so comically dysfunctional that it cannot even provide people enough that they feel comfortable having kids…when reproduction is the most natural, biologically fundamental thing in the world? Yeah, that is clearly a sick and depraved system that doesn’t deserve to continue to exist on this Earth. Let it fall.