"If global population stops expanding and then contracts, capitalism—a system implicitly predicated on ever-burgeoning numbers of people—will likely not be able to thrive in its current form."https://www.foreignaffairs.com/reviews/review-essay/2019-08-12/population-bust?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter_cta&utm_campaign=cta_share_buttons …
I'm pronatalist, but all this doom-mongering assumes that we won't make any real progress on regenerative medicine and longevity treatments. Aging, senescence, and death are not inevitable, and anyone who says they are implicitly wants you to die sooner rather than later.
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" Aging, senescence, and death are not inevitable." Best news I've heard so far this week.
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I’m pro nataliat as well, but evolution will fix this in a few generations unless we go berserk and start importing people. It’s like how people espouse market-pricing but only when prices are rising. The market can handle falling prices, too.
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First, capitalism cannot survive the population boom. Now, capitalism cannot survive the population bust? I think there's some power hungry elitists somewhere making stuff up. Again.
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This is like nuclear fusion, always only ten years away from working.
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Agreed, but people's desire to work beyond 70 is limited. That seems to be a problem with the top-heavy population graphs to me.
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Immortality is incredibly boring. Only the finite are precious.
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If everybody buys into the posthuman live-for-ever dream, but it doesn't really happen for a thousand years, that's many generations of resentment, right? People would get much more depressed, I'd think.
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You know, I don't know whether if I'll keel over instantly of some weirdness at 63, or keep going until all that's left of me is a tarp stretched over some bones. Given my family and lifestyle, it could be either.
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I'm sorry but wanting to extend artificially your life no matter what is ridiculous.
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