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Death rates fall faster than birth rates:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8c/De...

These people simply didn't know how many of their children are going to survive.


1. humans aren't produced in response to job market demand

2. even if they were, they have a huge time to market (at least a decade), which leads to feast/famine situations as supply/demand lags and fails to match demand/supply. You also see this other industries, eg. semiconductor manufacturing. It takes a lot of money and time to set up a fab, so they'll keep pumping out NAND/DRAM chips even when the market is drowning with it, just so they can recoup their investment.


It'll continue as long as there's an abundance of cheap food


Right, because food is unafforably expensive in rich countries with low birth rates.


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What an ignorant comment. You would have done the same if you were in their place.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographic_transition


One or two children fair enough. More than that do you not start thinking there's less food to give my child, less time, less everything as I have to split my finite resources?



What's ignorant? More people = more pollution and problems. Let's go for a baseline growth.


You're extremely ignorant, you seem to be inable to use complex thought to understand someone elses conditions. They simply don't know how many children are going to survive also their children are their safety net in old age as they won't have any social security. When you're living hand to mouth its hard to give a fuck about concepts like pollution and excessive growth.




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