If we are treating this as a Class 3 and not a Class 2, then it's time we started asking the 'unanswerable' questions.
Why? The killer question that is generally safe to ignore, but crucial when trying to induce something. Why would the elites of the world want a lower population? It's very, very fortunate for them that most people in the world are poor. More people means more taxes (for example, the USA already makes routine calculations to see what income tax revenue will be in 5-10 years), more people to do the grunt work that robots can't, etc. Depopulation just doesn't fit in with that goal. You could make the argument that China is already trying to do this (one-child-law), but that's because China doesn't actually have the ability to support even as many people as it already does. And I heard they were repealing that, anyway.
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Gamerdog6482 ago
If we are treating this as a Class 3 and not a Class 2, then it's time we started asking the 'unanswerable' questions.
Why? The killer question that is generally safe to ignore, but crucial when trying to induce something. Why would the elites of the world want a lower population? It's very, very fortunate for them that most people in the world are poor. More people means more taxes (for example, the USA already makes routine calculations to see what income tax revenue will be in 5-10 years), more people to do the grunt work that robots can't, etc. Depopulation just doesn't fit in with that goal. You could make the argument that China is already trying to do this (one-child-law), but that's because China doesn't actually have the ability to support even as many people as it already does. And I heard they were repealing that, anyway.