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The notion of population collapse that the self-professed genius Musk keeps banging on about. He might know a bit about engineering but demographics & pandemics are definitely not his strong suits...
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To clarify: it's obviously a possibility but a static one to a large extent (look at what China is doing ATM) & also a smaller global human population but with higher quality of life shouldn't be something to fear.
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Has nothing to do with musk. Musk isn't the only person describing this. It is pretty well know. Covid has exacerbated the problem..
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I disagree. We are an aging population. Unless we figure out how to get people to age better and remain productive and healthy in later life, the next generations will be caring for all of us sick old unproductive people. That takes away their focus from progressing things
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I think you are probably putting too little weighting on: - automation - voluntary euthanasia - government incentives to increase the birth rate. China has 1.4bn people and has relaxed the birth rate and there is talk about it starting to promote births. Geometric growth.
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