[derping_hacker]

You're implying that technology won't be able to increase productivity. One of the biggest topics people are talking about is automation taking jobs, so why do we need to worry about population size?

Human population grows exponentially, earth has finite resources. Constant population growth is suicidal.

[candiodari]

> You're implying that technology won't be able to increase productivity

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

A component of which is the observation that real production growth has been essentially zero since the 1980s. So clearly you can have technological advances without any productivity growth.

> Human population grows exponentially, earth has finite resources. Constant population growth is suicidal.

Not nearly as suicidal as population decline, obviously.

More nuanced, there are plenty of species, and races within species, that refuse to have their population grow. It doesn't end well.

[txsh]

> So clearly you can have technological advances without any productivity growth.

A little perspective is required. From the 1860’s to the 1960’s we went from candles and horses to computers and the moon landing. In the past 50 years nothing comparable to electricity, automobiles, flight, space flight, antibiotics, refrigeration, computers, telephones, radio, nuclear power, etc. has been invented. We have only refined technology invented by our great grandparents. Our civilization is stagnant and incapable of producing the kind of people who can move us forward. And, when the population begins to decline, we’ll begin to regress. Our great grandchildren might only read about airplanes in books.