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Re:The Age of Depopulation by poisonborz on Thursday October 10, 2024 @02:31PM (#41801797)
Are you serious? Compass, gunpowder, in vitro fertilisation, metallurgy, the concept of zero and decimal number system.

In current times China and India has a manufacturing industry the US can't compete with (tries to, with expensive hogwash like the Chip act).

Strictly speaking yes, more people != more innovation, but your examples are just not making sense. You are talking about the second and fifth largest economies worldwide.

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Re:The Age of Depopulation by ericmcer on Thursday October 10, 2024 @03:48PM (#41802781)
Yes I am serious, what you are claiming is:

US has 333m so:

China 1.4b = 4.5X more innovations

Africa 1.3b = 4X more innovations

India 1.4b = 4.5X more innovations

I don't think this holds true at all. Also the innovations you mentioned are from a time before China had a massive population compared to Europe. I am talking about the last few generations when the human population exploded. Why would an innovation from 1000 years ago have any relevance.

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