and now that the very best estimate is about 12 billion by 2100, I have no idea of it's a good or bad thing

youd have to compare how it was "calculated" wouldnt you

that's true

About the same way windows calculates estimated time when copying files

This is from a UN written article from back in 2014 (revised until -2019)

Over population is a meme

We can easily make food for billions more

Food was never the question

It was quality/purpose/usefulness of a life produced

I don't think we as a society can use a major class of poor people, even if we can feed them

Unless you turn them into disposable work slaves

Like hive cities in 40k

@ryvergate we can, it just requires TPTB to stop preventing things that are useful and helpful. Take paypal donations as an example. putting a donate link next to the person's video on youtube would make creators' lives a whole lot simpler. It's not done though, because of greed.

Or we get rid of the mindset of living to work

And have a mindset of pursuing life however that means for you

nah that doesn't work

We have the technology to replace huge amounts of our current work force

you'd need to force people into positions

No ones tried it ralin

Not in the history of humanity

Have we had the capability to replace almost the entire workforce with tech

Eventually “live to work” will have to go I think

Or what? We create meaningless jobs to keep people occupied?

What’s the point in that

@PureEvilPie oh I agree, but the future requires insane taxes on big biz that will never happen

they will replace workers with machines and save money

and instead of offsetting the damage to economy and jobs, they will keep the profit

Ya, it will hard and crazy

Overpopulation is a problem of inefficiency within urban environments

Equally as likely is mass extermination I think

Urbanites are usually the only ones that complain about overpopulation.

Who knows what the future companies will do

>Or what? We create meaningless jobs to keep people occupied?

You ever heard the word bureaucracy?

But on a much larger scale

I get what you mean though

I think UBI will have to become a thing

Will be cheaper than a lot of these bureaucratic roles lol

@Xaverius bureaucracy can work if each individual tier of support isn't NPC'd. have to have a live person to know when to skip to the end and get something done quickly

like splitting oneself off into millions of copies

the copies don't know what the others are doing, but they are all equally skilled