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BKGPrints t1_iy94u04 wrote

Reply to comment by Shillbot_9001 in How will the space economy alter society? by Gari_305

No it's not. There are indications that prosperity leads to lower birth rates. A lower birth rate is not necessarily a bad thing.

It took thousands of years for the population to increase to two billion by 1900. It took less than a century to get to six billion and then another twenty years to get to eight billion.

During that time, most of the population growth was in impoverished countries in Asia, Africa and Indonesia.

As the economies of many of those countries have improved, so has the birth rate decline. But at the same time, recognize that a significant part of the population decline is because many of the population is just getting older and dying out.

And to support that poverty increases birth rates. The population for Nigeria, which more than 90% of the population is considered to live in poverty, is expected to double from it's current population of 210 million to more than 400 million by 2050.

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BKGPrints t1_iy923sm wrote

Reply to How will the space economy alter society? by Gari_305

Hope the biggest benefit to society is not the economical aspect but the revelation that all the petty indifferences that we have on our planet are just insignificant and we're better off working together.

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BKGPrints t1_iy91qxk wrote

Reply to comment by ajabardar1 in How will the space economy alter society? by Gari_305

>but i enjoy that you said we aren't close to a post-scarcity society, and then you say we have far more resources than we need here on earth at the same time.<

He's right on that, though. The scarcity that we deal with today is artificial scarcity.

But I disagree with him that there isn't value or opportunity with being in space.

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BKGPrints t1_iy4plrc wrote

Reply to ‘Life no longer as we know it’: war in space would have immediate effects, expert says | Space by Gari_305

Of course it would.

Though, while Russia demonstrated that it has a capability, there are strong doubts on Russia's ability to maintain that capability.

China does have more capability to do so but so does the United States on a much larger scale. And just like with MAD and the threat of the use of nuclear weapons during the Cold War with the Soviet Union, the Chinese government is just as susceptible to the vulnerabilities of a space war as the United States.

Though, if it gets to that level of type of warfare, the situation on the ground is already much worse that it won't make much difference of the immediate effects.

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