Trump administration 2024-2028

[Oldgateboatdriver]

Or....reduce the amount of humans. #viruscull

Funny enough, in my first university Macroeconomics class, the teacher told us: "If the government asks you to propose solutions to increase the GDP per capita of the country, you have to tell them they can either increase GDP or reduce the number of capita. It's not your job to decide which is moral and which is not".

 

[Oldgateboatdriver]

#viruscull

Wasn't that recently attempted by the Chinese?

 

[PPCLI Guy]

Funny enough, in my first university Macroeconomics class, the teacher told us: "If the government asks you to propose solutions to increase the GDP per capita of the country, you have to tell them they can either increase GDP or reduce the number of capita. It's not your job to decide which is moral and which is not".

Like the NDP approach to 2% spending on Defence. Adopt policies that will shrink the economy......

 

[MrWhyt]

W-what? Are you telling me American's are the ones paying his tariffs?!

but i was assured that foreign countries were paying them?

 

[Brad Sallows]

Or....reduce the amount of humans. #viruscull

Taken seriously, the number of people is predicted to shortly peak and then start declining. More automation will be desirable, and should improve productivity and eventually shorten conventional working time, with undetermined effects on birth rates. There will probably be a floor, above zero, under birth rates. If improved lives do not get birth rates back up above replacement, we go extinct, but I suspect the desire to have children is suppressed by the amount of working time needed to sustain a family. I would expect to find some region within which the world population at least approximately stabilizes, or resumes increasing.

A system of differential equations to be solved, if someone wanted to observe (measure) the system and model it.

The labour shortage created by the Black Plague improved the lives of the surviving peasants.

Canada already has labour shortages, particularly in public services, unless all the ads unions in BC are running on TV are bullshit. (In some cases, given statutory requirements, labour shortages are certainly real.)

 

[PrairieFella]

Which, at some point, should bring back the Henry Ford great discovery when he concluded and decided that he should pay his employees a higher than average wage: If you mass produce something for the people, you have to make sure the greatest mass of people have money to buy it.

If robots and AI take over producing the worlds good but cause unemployment of most people in the world, their mass producing anything ain't gonna make them rich: it's gonna cause mass revolutions.

UBI and a 1950s tax structure might be our only way outta this.