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Re:Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants by JumpCrisscross on Thursday April 30, 2026 @09:43AM (#47962352)
> The #1 problem leading to humans not having enough to live comfortably is that we have an enormous number of humans and limited resources

Not particularly. We've ridden massive increases in both quality of life and population (at both the per-country and global scales) over the last two centuries.

Re:Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants by roenxi on Thursday April 30, 2026 @09:47AM (#47962428)
In the sense that the global median income crept from about $0 to $10,000 sure over a few centuries. That's a big achievement but it isn't exactly the best case scenario. We want a world where everyone can live at least a 6- or 7- figure salary.
Re:Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants by ben_w on Thursday April 30, 2026 @10:12AM (#47962801)
> the global median income crept from about $0 to $10,000 sure over a few centuries

The floor is 2-300 USD equivalent, because that's what subsistence farming is, and it took two centuries to go from $1500 to $18811: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/global-average-gdp-per-ca...

> We want a world where everyone can live at least a 6- or 7- figure salary.

that's a massive shift of goalposts from "not having enough to live comfortably is that we have an enormous number of humans and limited resources".

Re:Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants by JumpCrisscross on Thursday April 30, 2026 @09:57AM (#47962589)
> That's a big achievement but it isn't exactly the best case scenario. We want a world where everyone can live at least a 6- or 7- figure salary

I actually agree with this vision. But I wouldn't say every human not being a millionaire is "the #1 problem" today.

Re:Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants by roenxi on Friday May 01, 2026 @07:57AM (#47973750)
So what do you think the #1 problem is?

Don't leave us all in suspense.

Re:Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants by mytailorisrich on Thursday April 30, 2026 @09:57AM (#47962605)
And we have brought the planet to its knees in the process...