• resipsaloquitur@lemmy.cafe
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    3
    ·
    19 hours ago

    You understand that money is a fiction, right? It’s not even numbers on a piece of paper anymore, it’s ones and zeroes.

    Fewer people means more resources per person and less damage to the earth.

    • nooneescapesthelaw@mander.xyz
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      3 hours ago

      The “resources” we rely on require (working) humans, less working humans means less resources. The population we have today won’t disappear all at once but when they age out of the workforce, a smaller population will not be able to support them

      In other words, if we are below replacement level, we will eventually have a situation where the old outnumber the young, which means that the young have to work harder to support the old