While a lot of the talk for "constant growth" is entirely made up nonsense designed to take from us, there is an amount that is needed to keep up with those aforementioned comfort levels.
Society has too many needs and provisions that are more available (that need an entire supply chain and production to provide) than ages past, and we aren't breeding at a level to fully stock all of those with capable people. We progressed way too fast into technology for even a highly breeding society to keep up.
I don't think smaller population sizes are capable without either small land area (meaning supply chains are smaller and cross pollination is more possible) or a lot of regression out of technological offerings (which no one is going to do on a large scale willingly).
So we still need to pump our birth rates up to catch up to simply being able to reach those levels without importing Pajeets and Mexicans, but we aren't anywhere close to that.
As someone who works in IT, I keep preaching the mantra that technology was a mistake but everyone still thinks I'm saying it in jest. In the meantime the evidence for the truth of my belief simply continues stacking up.
While a lot of the talk for "constant growth" is entirely made up nonsense designed to take from us, there is an amount that is needed to keep up with those aforementioned comfort levels.
Society has too many needs and provisions that are more available (that need an entire supply chain and production to provide) than ages past, and we aren't breeding at a level to fully stock all of those with capable people. We progressed way too fast into technology for even a highly breeding society to keep up.
I don't think smaller population sizes are capable without either small land area (meaning supply chains are smaller and cross pollination is more possible) or a lot of regression out of technological offerings (which no one is going to do on a large scale willingly).
So we still need to pump our birth rates up to catch up to simply being able to reach those levels without importing Pajeets and Mexicans, but we aren't anywhere close to that.
As someone who works in IT, I keep preaching the mantra that technology was a mistake but everyone still thinks I'm saying it in jest. In the meantime the evidence for the truth of my belief simply continues stacking up.
Nah, it's containers