A truly remarkable map. The highest fertility rates in Europe are barely at replacement level. Most of Europe is far below. Interesting how much between-country variance there is.https://twitter.com/simongerman600/status/1138866057047945217 …
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If there are few people and they are wealthy, then it seems like wealth is fairly evenly distributed in such a world - I wouldn't consider that dystopic.
True. I wonder about the effect of population decline on technology. It's a lot easier to raise very large sums of capital (> billions) for things like semiconductor fabs with higher population.
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Concretely: suppose the world had 10 million people. Intel might well have stalled in the late 1970s or 1980s, because they couldn't raise the capital needed for better fabs (fab cost doubles I think every 4 years or so...)
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Interesting point. I wonder how much cost scales down with population decline - I do suspect technology growth would slow, if only because the world wouldn't support as diverse a set of experiments.
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I'm not sure for fabs. But def some things where cost scale down is weak with declining population. Apollo's cost (~200 bill, I believe) wasn't really dependent on pop. size. But paying for it surely was!
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