diff --git a/_posts/2020-10-26-fill-the-earth.md b/_posts/2020-10-26-fill-the-earth.md index a69ff42..51c6d47 100644 --- a/_posts/2020-10-26-fill-the-earth.md +++ b/_posts/2020-10-26-fill-the-earth.md @@ -19,9 +19,9 @@ Governments also have a tendency to grow, but they grow by taxing more or conque The memes of free market and private property thrive because they foster economic evolution. Those who allocate their resources in a way that produces additional value — stuff that others want — will get more resources to allocate. Bad businesses, like unfit memes, go bankrupt and their resources are put to better use. -Degrowth is not a sustainable idea. "Have fewer kids to fight the climate change" and other variants of the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement are not evolutionarily fit memes, except for the comedy value. Pro-life cultures and genes will be the winners of evolution. More so in the current age of abundance, where you can have as many children as you can be bothered to, and basically all of them will survive. +Degrowth is not a sustainable idea. "Have fewer kids to fight the climate change" and other variants of the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement are not evolutionarily fit memes, except for the comedy value. In this current era of abundance, where nearly every child reaches adulthood, it's the cultures and genes that prolifically procreate, much like rabbits, that will prevail in the evolutionary race. -Of course, growth beyond the environmental carrying capacity is not sustainable either. Free market economy can help here as well: When land is privately owned, you have an incentive to not ruin its environmental value. However, it's also crucial that your neighbour's land, water, breathing air, and other externalities are priced in. +Of course, growth beyond the environmental carrying capacity is not sustainable either. Free market economy can help here as well: When land is privately owned, you have an incentive to not ruin its environmental value. However, it's crucial that also your neighbour's land, water, breathing air, and other externalities are priced in. You don't have to like these "ruthless darwinian" theories of life, but I believe they can be good to know if you want to build a business, product or idea that survives and thrives.