you can just rotate labor if there's work shortages
ie person A does job for 2 weeks, then person B, etc
keeps everyone with roughly the same amount of work time
Overpopulation
Eli White
Kayden Clark
Reminder that a significant number of people are taking their cues on this topic from Purple Space Daddy. As usual, popular media is preparing people for an authoritarian turn. In a scenario where people start dying from rising sea levels and getting thrown in concentration camps people are going to unironically quote the Avengers movie to justify it.
Noah Turner
And have nowhere to apply those skills.
Gabriel Mitchell
Alright, so few people do the absolutely needed jobs while the rest do nothing dance to lord Kumbaya, paint giant dildos on walls and stream their gaming and lives, now that's… much better, I guess?
Juan Rivera
That's due to high labor productivity. It has nothing to do with population (if workers are too productive to need more than 10% at full time jobs supporting the rest, that's going to be true no matter how many or few people there are), nor with "socialism"welfare (whether they're supported in comfort or hunted for sport, under capitalism or otherwise, people without any useful task to perform will always exist in a highly industrialized society). Perhaps humanity could bend itself to some demanding and meaningful task, such as space exploration, to consume idle time, but that's about it.
Except the earth is a physical object of finite dimension, as such greater population on it imposes greater squalor and misery.
Contrariwise, the only reason to have significant population is to reach economies of scale for industrialization, which 1/10th current population would be far more than adequate for.
Xavier Phillips
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Jonathan Jenkins
Billions of people can't.
It's just human nature.
Nicholas Cox
Robots will never be able to replace intellectual labor that requires self awareness.
But the universe is infinite. Besides we could fit a lot more people on Earth before running into resource issues.
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Gabriel Myers
But who is going to buy my books when nobody even have a job anymore?
Andrew Morales
WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT