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Re:The Population Bust by adverbly on Saturday August 17, 2019 @08:19AM (#20723641)
Per capital growth is also not sufficient. Such a metric could easily be achieved by slowly reducing the population to 1. I might propose some analog of total output minus population growth as a better metric.
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Re:The Population Bust by pdonis on Saturday August 17, 2019 @02:09PM (#20725362)
> Per capital growth is also not sufficient. Such a metric could easily be achieved by slowly reducing the population to 1

Only if the 1 person can continue to increase their productivity with nobody else to trade with, which is absurd. Increasing productivity comes from specialization and trade.

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