The Economist: Plunging Population Will Make It Harder To Find Ethiopian Food
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Date: September 12th, 2025 5:18 AM Author: talented market cuckold
One type of fear is broad and economic. Fewer people means fewer brains, so the pace of innovation would slow. It means less scope for specialisation and division of labour. (If only 1,000 people live in your city, good luck finding Ethiopian food or a club for your niche hobby.) Rapid shrinkage could be hugely disruptive. Heavy public debts would suddenly fall on fewer shoulders, many of them ageing. Megacities might be fine, but small towns could hollow out as the last school closes.
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Date: September 12th, 2025 7:47 AM Author: Peach chapel
"Fewer people means fewer brains, so the pace of innovation would slow."
The opposite is often true. Three examples:
(1) Consider the "pace of innovation" from, say, 2000 BC, when global populaiton was a few hundred million, to 1800, when population crossed 1B.
(2) There is definitely not more innovation today than there was 50 years ago, when world popultion was half of what it is today. The pace of innovation is slowing, if anything, unless you do some fraud "microprocessors are getting faster and smaller" argument.
(3) Scholarship shows the opposite for, e.g., the black death leading to a huge popultion dip in Europe leading to more (not less) opportunity and innovation, leading right into the Renaissance.
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Date: September 12th, 2025 8:08 AM Author: Canary school cafeteria
Spot on. Innovation requires people having the time and resources to innovate. When one has to dedicate all of their effort to just staying afloat, innovation plummets. Dedicating the time and resources towards innovation becomes too risky.
For example, as China’s population began increasing around 1000 AD, innovation plummeted, culminating in their century of humiliation. European ships floated into their harbors bearing originally-Chinese innovations (gunpowder) which China’s economy of sustenance rice farmers had abandoned centuries ago.
Same goes for India, which was once the richest and highest productivity area on the globe. Modi refers to it as “India’s millennium of humiliation” culminating in having a billion Indian lives saved by Norman Borlaug.
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Date: September 12th, 2025 8:55 AM Author: dull bipolar tanning salon multi-billionaire
Plus the brains entering our country are double digit iq.
Even the brain drain browns suffer from regression to the mean in their offspring.
And if they breed with higher iq races that dilutes those too.
Massive population growth in Africa with 50-70 iq
Can’t think of a good reason for any of this.
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