Comment on Really, ….. it's my fault they built a terrible system?
just_change_it@lemmy.world 10 months ago
The era of a strong economy was brought on by factors from WW2 and the weakening was brought on by 2-3x growth in world population.
More people fitting into the same cities means less space and more demand.
More people means more workers for jobs that pay even less because the competition is fiercer than ever.
More people means more percentage of resources going to surviving and less on luxuries.
We can give a small % of global population luxury. US QOL isn’t sustainable on a global scale with the resources available in the world.
Population means more labor and more consumption as well. For all of human history before thr industrial age, labor shortages were dire.
The problems that come with overpopulation are pollution and shortages of specific resources. No this is about unchecked capitalism focusing all the resources to a tiny elite class. Even more concentrated than the wealth in France, 1789.
That is misleading, because the GDP per capital has increased at the same time standards of living fell.
There isn’t less wealth per person, there’s more inequality.
We’re living at a time of abundance, but it’s not being distributed as evenly as in the past.
There’s no inherent reason people can’t have homes, healthcare, and affordable college. It’s just that increased productivity was counterbalanced by even more concentration of wealth and power.
Anytime someone claims to know why the economy behaves the way it does I am immediately skeptical. Unless thr reason is to establish inequality we should see able to use the information to establish a better syatem.
So what you’re saying is fifty percent of all life
smosjoske@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
In my opinion, the whole population growth excuse is always an excuse and leads to dangerous results. The growth in population in Western countries has completely decimated since WW2. At this moment, only Africa is thought to have a positive growth number in the coming years. The population has grown, but the needs of almost the entire world have drastically increased. Leading to enormous growth in wealth and also productivity. That productivity has not been translated into less work, and the population increase has not translated into less work. Both of those things have translated into more wealth and more wealth inequality. Blaming the housing crisis/ financial crisis on too many people will only lead to racism, while the system keeps sucking everyone dry and making very few rich. There is plenty to go around, and the population growth is a story of the last century. We will reach our cap this century with all its effects to it.
Grimr0c@lemmy.world 10 months ago
This is wildly incorrect. Where the heck did you get this data from??
smosjoske@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
…wikimedia.org/…/File:Total_Fertility_Rate_for_6_…
By the end of the century only Africa will have a fertility rate higher than 2. All the other continents have a lower rate than 2, meaning a decline in population.