Quote from: Beliathon on October 13, 2014, 03:29:21 PM

Quote from: genjix on October 13, 2014, 03:19:27 PM

Quote from: calchuchesta on October 13, 2014, 01:58:23 PM

Comment above is spot on. We are told to be individualistic by nature, then reinforced by artificial scarcity and artificial need to compete.

The truth is we are headed towards 95% unemployment as only 5% of human labour will be needed to produce everything we need before the current century ends. Have fun trying to keep an economy alive with such a situation.

A lot of people is going to die or be disenfranchised. That's the way it has to be, I'm sorry.
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There is just no other way, people are going to die. Our trajectory cannot continue its insanity.

I read recently that if everyone on the planet lived with a Rwandan standard of living, Earth could feasibly support a population of 15 billion. But if everyone lived with a North American standard of living, Earth could only support 1.2 billion humans.

The trouble is, everyone wants the better standard of living and no one seems to want to stop breeding...

Here we go...your solution is to let a few billion die..I suppose you could help make that happen. Perpaps you are into life extension also?

The first dead (not the first born) son of the Ming dynasty founder died at 21 while experimenting with life extending medicine... had to laugh.