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1. Don Romano (alt) (thor@noagendasocial.com)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Apr-2019 15:15:36 EDT Don Romano (alt)

   Rather fascinating theory about the Industrial Revolution, and how it didn't actually cause an acceleration in economic growth. The world was following a hyperbolic economic growth trajectory even before that, but the Malthusian Trap meant that population growth would always catch up and spread the resources thinly again. Our quality of living is mostly improving because we are breeding slower than we innovate, allowing fewer people to enjoy ever greater spoils.

   1. Don Romano (alt) (thor@noagendasocial.com)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Apr-2019 15:26:18 EDT Don Romano (alt)

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      Based on this, shrinking Earth's population down considerably seems to me like an even better idea than I thought.

      Europe experienced something like it in the High Middle Ages. The Plague decimated populations yet left more resources on fewer hands. For a while there, Europeans lived the good life.

      1. Mister M. T. Sack (thatbrickster@shitposter.club)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Apr-2019 15:27:04 EDT Mister M. T. Sack

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         @thor don't gas me adolf
         1. Don Romano (alt) (thor@noagendasocial.com)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Apr-2019 15:31:39 EDT Don Romano (alt)

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            @thatbrickster We just need to make the poor countries breed as slowly as we do. They'll eventually get there, but it wouldn't hurt to try to accelerate the process a bit...