I kinda went on a little research spree on economics this afternoon but at one point I figured it’s probably good to know if it’s possible for, say, at least 98% of people on earth to live a happy fulfilled life at all.
I know there’s plenty of people who’d be more than happy to have literally nothing more than a house, food and water, but that still leaves a whole lot of people who want other things in life.
Do we have any metrics or data on wether the earth can sustain roughly 8 billion humans?
to add to this excellent reply: we are drastically losing resources by that very same plastic & pollution & climate change. so this way ahead we lose earth’s capacity to sustain this amount of people, inevitably.
the oligarchs are the richest- every year breaking record wealth in human history- and the least efficient in using that wealth and the most delusional. that Jeff Bezos is intent of living on Mars - a planet without the earth’s abundance. that’s like a noob on easy mode with power leveled allies always helping out in coop asking you trust they can take on the hardest difficulty of a game solo. no track record of success in this world, delusional to think mars isna solution