[pluto_modadic]

I think it's moreso that there's a pie... and billionaires/millionaires/VC/PE want people to worry about too many people instead of a very greedy, wasteful few.

Now, you can have too few youngsters in the workforce, as a few countries are about to find out.

Could keep the current population AND have a high standard of living WITHOUT it being wasteful: and GOOD NEWS EVERYONE, it's a fun engineering problem! (but it's also a policy problem and requires intentional change) - e.g., reshaping manufacturing away from landfills, agriculture away from crops humans don't end up eating, companies away from stock markets and toward worker control, governments away from lobbyists and towards citizen control....

[satvikpendem]

Wealth is not zero sum, it's not a fixed pie that people fight over. That being said, yes, there are a lot of sociopolitical solutions to creating high standards of living.

[lucb1e]

> billionaires/millionaires/VC/PE want people to worry about too many people instead of a very greedy, wasteful few

What percentage of the problem do your greedy, wasteful few pose? I genuinely don't know. What I do know is that the 'greedy, wasteful' ~13% of the earth population (USA+EEA+AU+NZ+JP, 'the western world', is about 1 billion people) forms the vast majority of the problem. I don't remember if it's like 70% or like 85%, but something on that order.

What share of those 1 billion rich people's emissions is caused by your millionaires, I would be interested to learn, but I fear that we can't just push our problems onto someone else, especially that group.