Re:Population panic lets rich people off the hook for the cl...
by webmaven on Friday August 28, 2020 @09:43AM
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> The point is that there's no future where everyone consumes as much as today's average American. You either:
> a) reduce the consumption of the globally wealthy (this includes most Americans)
> b) keep the globally impoverished poor to keep their consumption low
> c) add in some eugenics and stop the poor people from having more kids with the promise that one day you'll let them consume the same way you already do
I think there is a plausible scenario where wealth becomes even more concentrated such that most Americans join the globally poor (this reduces the number of globally wealthy without reducing their consumption, after which you can assume scenario B). This is more or less the setup for the one-season TV series "Incorporated".
> a) reduce the consumption of the globally wealthy (this includes most Americans)
> b) keep the globally impoverished poor to keep their consumption low
> c) add in some eugenics and stop the poor people from having more kids with the promise that one day you'll let them consume the same way you already do
I think there is a plausible scenario where wealth becomes even more concentrated such that most Americans join the globally poor (this reduces the number of globally wealthy without reducing their consumption, after which you can assume scenario B). This is more or less the setup for the one-season TV series "Incorporated".