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So... I’ve been trying to find supporting arguments for my intuition that even though death rate is far lower than Spanish Flu (2%) and European Black Death (25-30%), the civilizational damage is comparable. I’ve found a pretty good one...
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I call it memetic whole-life r/K theory. Civilizations pursue one of 2 strategies: r-civilizations treat life as cheap and are robust to a lot of death at all life stages and sustain it with high birth rate K-civilizations great life as expensive and fight hard for every life
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I think we've always been a K species, and the r strategy is a maladaptation to a specific phase in our evolution (agrarian sedentary economic surplus which threatens to go away). It was the costliest way to build slack. Modernity unshackles us from that, but creates its own..
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