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Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk say human population not nearly big enough: ‘If we had a trillion humans, we would have at any given time a thousand Mozarts’ (finance.yahoo.com)

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago

Elon and Bezoz think civilization=steadily rising profits and they see that they won’t have enough workers or consumers to enable that if birthrates aren’t also above replacement. Or, as Marx en co. would say, they are running into a classic crisis of capitalism. Profits must grow.

What we should really be considering are plans for economies that aren’t reliant on continuous growth for stability.