Your OP would be funny if you didn't mean it seriously. Your vision of things seems a bit distorted IMHO. And as it regards money, I don't know how I should explain you that that money does not really exist, that's just numbers in computers which people believe, and that if you add also the bubble of the derivatives you'd have even much more money in the system. But all that is all very virtual, while humans are quite real on the contrary.
I don’t know if it was we never take it seriously. We looked at the number we think it is okey, we think the population is fair enough, we don’t have any problem today, we live a complete life, very fulfilling life, we enjoy every second of our life has to offer. Ok enough of the dream, come to reality, deep inside us, we know everything is not okey, we keep hearing people telling us we have too high population we should reduce it. We shouldn’t use flying car b cause it is blah, we shouldn’t make money because it is evil, we shouldn’t have kids because it is expensive, we shouldn’t retired because we can’t afford it, we can’t afford house, we blah blah. I don’t know if it sound completely normal but we are working for what? Back to 30 years ago, we are doing fine, and we aim to be better, we want higher growth, in everything, higher living standard, higher population, higher wage, higher survival rate, higher interaction among human, higher economies, everything higher, we even expect to go to moon, it is not happening, everything just turn ugly, everything is become worse, we don’t want growth now, we want to de-growth now. |
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The number of population does not directly relate to the amount of welath created.
You are forgetting about the resources needed to creat actual wealth.
Resources are limited and some soin will be depleted on earth.
What then?
In fact I think we should redistribute wealth to the poorer countries in the long run, so they can get up to speed with the western countries. This will result in less wars, less poverty, more wealth for everyone.
To make this happen though, we have to change the way we think. Egoism and greed habe to be replaced by solidarity and the will to make everyones lives better.
You should read marx!
He foretold the current situations. capitalism will destroy itself and a real communism will replace it. Not the way we had in he ussr or china. But more like in startrek. Gene roddenberry had a very clear and concrete vision on how such a world would look like!
If I had to sort through population by a country, by age gap, etc, it will be more disturbing, poor country usually had higher population while wealthy country has lower population, and the population gap is huge between them, I dunno how it would happen since they are so poor to feed a family but they somehow survive. Capitalism also usually come from wealthier country, the purpose of capitalism is believed to distribute wealth fairly, but I don’t know what is happening since the capitalism was found until it is today, everything didn’t turn out to be what we expected to be, we expect flying car by now, higher standard of living where we should never need to work again today, it is not happening, instead it turn out we gotta work more harder than ever, it become working poor, and long hours of working, i don’t know who promise the capitalism would work, to improve life, but I don’t see how it work today, everyone would just use capitalism to benefit themselves now, we are not working to become flying car nation, we are working to become the ultimate poor, also aging nation, I don’t know if aging nation isn’t serious enough because I don’t seem anyone care about it. What will be different if communism would to replace capitalism, I think it would just be another self-enriching governing used by the self centric corporation. |
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I think you are mixing up a few things. Jusdt because the magnitude of numbers is different doesn‘t mean there’s a problem.
There are various calculations on how many people earth can feed, and we are beyond a certain limit - if every peson would live like in a western country.
It only works because so many people around the globe live in poverty.
But wealth and a number like xxxx worth in money doesnnot mean anything at all. money is virtual. Real wealth, like freedome of speech, food, housing can be expressed in those numbers, but is the actual wealth.
I dunno what can I used to compare the number, may be I can use number of fishes inside the world ocean? But I dunno how many fishes are there, but I believe it must have more than a few billions fishes inside it, some predict it to be 3.5 trillions fishes inside the sea, that will be more than enough to feed all the people in this world, harvesting fish from the sea would be another story, but we will soon turning into vegan because of food crisis. But property sound like a real issues, people aren’t afford to buy house, may be we have not enough house, but that’s may not have to be the reason to low population. Freedom of speech, I think it is about how much we can speak, I think we can speak as much as we can, I like to speak to my wife all the time I dunno if I have not enough of it, may be because we have too few people to talk to it will be then a problem. What should be a fair number to be consider overpopulation? I think when a small area of land filled with enough people it become overpopulation, it definitely not going to happen as we have a lot of empty land, but we may have not enough people to fill all the land. I was raised in a small town in some Asia country, it has more than enough resource for everything, when I grown up I moved to town, and I can tell there is overpopulation, that’s when I thought this world has to much people, until I got the number of total world population, I was shock it is not what I thought it should be, I expected it to be more. |
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I used to think this world has a lot of people. We have only 7.6 billions on planet earth.
But we have a lot of money, 72,000 billions worth of money, we have a lot of data, petabyte is 1,000,000 billions byte? I don’t know what happened to my brain, I just can’t get excited over the number 7.6 billions, I think it is too small. And what is more terrifying is we are not getting more human in the next xx years, we are going to get a lot more money and more data in the next xx years. I don’t think it look healthy at all, what is the purpose of high growth when our population isn’t growing high?
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