[alanwatts]

The income itself is what stabilizes the population, this phenomenon is known as the demographic-economic paradox.

The real false assumption here is that increased standard of living leads to overpopulation. The data indicates the opposite is true.

Reproduction is a survival mechanism. Threaten an organisms survival, and that mechanism is triggered.

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

[justinmk]

Ok. But if for some bizarre reason lacking a Nobel prize, people multiply non-linearly, then BI will not be sustainable, correct? And that constraint defies the definition of post-scarcity.