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SoulfulNeonBank t1_iyee6ng wrote

Reply to comment by catfink1664 in 8 billion people will die in the next century by NMLWrightReddit

I think the math is a bit wrong. Wouldn’t it be 69M a year, times 100 years? 6.9B people? Strictly on the math of course.

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KenobiChosen1 t1_iyeeujt wrote

You’re both right. He’s saying how long he think it’ll take for 8 billion people to die based on how many people die per year currently which isn’t 100 years. You’re saying how many people will die in a 100 years.

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SoulfulNeonBank t1_iyeewxn wrote

Oh I’m a fucking idiot

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catfink1664 t1_iyex553 wrote

Lol no you’re not! Just using the other value in the equation! They both had equal weight in the original statement

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catfink1664 t1_iyewito wrote

And yet i got downvoted and the guy not in our thread who used trust me bro got like 30 upvotes lol. Funny internet

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KenobiChosen1 t1_iyex7eo wrote

Not that you should’ve gotten downvoted, but to be fair your logic isn’t completely sound. The death rate isn’t the same every year and it’ll definitely not be the same in a hundred or so years. As time goes on more people will die each year because populations get higher and higher for age group. Most people currently dying of old age were born when the population was significantly smaller than it is now

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