Roughly a 2x productivity boost will counteract a ~ 50% reproduction rate, simple economics. We just choose not to even try to have a system that would allow that
But I was half joking. It reminded me of our (Germany) current chancellor Merz who proposes to increase productivity by making us work more hours, saying we are all too lazy.
Here’s an idea: don’t make your economic system rely on the fact that every single person reproduces
That was never and is still not possible.
That’s not the lie we’re sold every waking hour, friendo. Get on the same page, thanks.
Who tells you that any system we have ever had could work without children?
You having a stroke?
Roughly a 2x productivity boost will counteract a ~ 50% reproduction rate, simple economics. We just choose not to even try to have a system that would allow that
So double the work hours?
Productivity has increased by orders of magnitude in the past 100 years
So has earths population.
But I was half joking. It reminded me of our (Germany) current chancellor Merz who proposes to increase productivity by making us work more hours, saying we are all too lazy.
wtf are you talking about