[toomuchtodo]

“Every additional person increases the rate of innovation across the entire species.”

This is a wild claim. Not everyone is a net positive contributor to the species. The world’s resource are already consumed beyond their replenishment rates, and hundreds of millions of people suffer from abject poverty and constant food insecurity. Total fertility rate decline curves are objectively positive for humans as a species and resource contention.

[mensetmanusman]

Not everyone, but on aggregate due to the network effect, specialization, and the odd statistics of the small % of humans able to grok mathematics.