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?
It won’t allow everyone to live comfortably and happily. The resources need to be distributed and there are many, many decisions necessary to define how the resources get distributed. If we lived in an ideal world, where everyone shared the same opinion on these decisions, then we’d all already live comfortably and happily now. But we don’t and as much as it sucks, we can’t fix being ourselves.