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Comment by roenxi

Why not everyone have 1 child, until the world's population is down to a few hundred million people and they can all live lives of extreme wealth?

The issue with this sort of thinking - most plans that assume a good outcome, really - is the real question here is how many people will inhabit the world. The default strategy that math (and human instinct) drives towards is just enough people that on average they start starving.

And if people are going to keep going until they starve _anyway_, what is the problem with some living well?

parent roenxi 4 years ago

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