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Re:The Population Bust by dumbfoundded on Friday August 16, 2019 @10:05PM (#20721491)
I think the idea is that humanity is basically a pyramid scheme. It takes more and more people to cover the debts and improve the world they received from the previous generations. I don't particularly agree with this viewpoint.
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Re:The Population Bust by sgt101 on Saturday August 17, 2019 @06:57AM (#20723332)
Who's debts are the world's population covering? Are we in hoc to Mars?!
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Re:The Population Bust by dumbfoundded on Saturday August 17, 2019 @01:10PM (#20724979)
Here are a few debts we have:

- Governmental fiscal debt

- Global climate change

- Societal debt. By this I mean, the previous generation left an unstable society at risk of collapse for the next generation. I would imagine a person born in 1920 would feel this way. As a programmer, I would frame this as "tech" debt for our social institutions.

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