Why falling birthrates might be a bigger deal than dominants narratives imply

Re:Why falling birthrates might be a bigger deal than domina... by orwin on Monday July 25, 2022 @09:14AM (#32223787)

But that's not our growth. Our system suppose constant exponential growth. And to use your maths:

1% + 0.5% + 0.25% + 0.125%....

Is this sequence constant growing? Yes. Is this sequence infinitely increasing? Yes. Does this sum up to a finite value? _Sadly no_

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Re:Why falling birthrates might be a bigger deal than domina... by cuteboy19 on Monday July 25, 2022 @09:46AM (#32224199)

I'd have to brush up on my math but even that feels bounded. Per cent is just division by 100, you take it out as a common divisor and you still arrive at the same sum.

Unless you mean something like

  1 * 1.01 * 1.02 * 1.03.....

Which is indeed unbounded.

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