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Re:90% of My Skills Are Now Worth $0 by snickerer on Wednesday April 19, 2023 @04:06PM (#35632662)
War leads to impoverishment of the population, and an impoverished population leads to many children, thus more overpopulation.

The number of offspring is a function of the average education and security of the population (especially the female). More education and security (i.e., more middle class), fewer children.

At least that's how I got the popular statistics from Hans Rosling.

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Re:90% of My Skills Are Now Worth $0 by mk89 on Wednesday April 19, 2023 @06:05PM (#35633909)
I was indeed considering this shortly before submitting the comment. Then I remembered we have weapons nowadays not available back then. It is a very bad way to “solve” this issue.

But again that’s the cynical view. The better and more optimistic view is that… it’s all a freaking hype, and we just need to figure out what to do next.

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