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We have more than enough to make sure everyone has more than enough. Poverty is deliberate and premeditated.
How do we know who to give food to of people aren't competing against each other to hoard as much wealth as they can?
Earlobe to bellybutton depth ratio. If the number is odd, you get tacos. If it's even, you get tacos. Other options also available.
I agree with this, but I still feel there are too many people. Like we don't need 8.5 billion. We could use so much less stuff if we just stopped fucking so much. We could REDUCE the size of our grid significantly. That seems like a good goal.
Btw genocide is a dumb way to achieve this. Plenty easy to just let people live to death since you can provide for 3x the number of people.
Edit: I thought I made it clear with the above line, but I'm not suggesting fucking eugenics. How do you get that from what I said..? I literally specified the fucking opposite. Unless people view any form of population controls in any sense to be eugenics. Which is just fucking braindead.
I think im the only one who agrees with you...we don't need this many people, and no one asks to be born. This doesn't mean we kill off people already here at all. Just stop feeling like kids are a requirement to live, or adopt.
Think about it. One person. Has 4 kids. Each kid wants their own house. Then each of those kids has kids that want their own house. None of that is sustainable. We wouldn't have to all live in 1 bedroom apartments if there were less people.
I agree. The earth's population has nearly doubled since I was a kid, with no particular planning or preparation, and now that food and housing shortages have gotten unbearably bad, we're told that we can't go back to having less people or everything will collapse, as though the planet is a MLM company.
The most effective way of population control is education, curbing of religious influences and raising of living standards. Just look up "demographic change". In the 1880, German fertility rates were between 5.5 and 5. That's on par with modern day Niger and Mali, some of the most fertile nations in the world. As soon as the mortality rates of German children dropped and a social net was established, rates fell. And this has happened all over the world. Unless we get taken in by abrahamic fertility cults again, a healthier, better educated and equal society will stabilize the world's population at around 9 billion. And we can easily support them, if we work towards it. No need for pseudoeugenics or other population control mechanisms.
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No u don't understand I need to be mean to others it's just how it is I don't make the rules. Wanting the best for everyone and working to achieve that is when it's Not Realistic and the more you are not finding excuses to hurt others the more Not Realistic it is. Hope this helps
It is definitely possible a "decent" living standard is lower in their minds then mine or yours or ours. I am very curious
There's actually enough liveable land for every adult on earth to have 2 acres worth.
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Multiple things can be true at once.
I think that humanity only optimized for quantity of life, not quality of life in the last 200 years. That doesn't really make sense. All of our needs can be fulfilled with 30% of the current workforce.