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Me and five friends and twenty womens could live comfortable on the whole Earth. Anything more than that is elbows and assholes.
OmCheeto said:I'm sure they didn't. But we've advanced technologically to the point where I think everyone could have my standard of living, if there were just far fewer of us. You don't see boatloads of people from the US trying to escape to Haiti do you? And are Germans and Brits flooding into Pakistan?
People have always migrated to less crowded, more hospitable lands. Unfortunately, I think we're seeing the end of that.
LennoxLewis said:I think we could provide the entire world of a decent standard of living, but irreversible corruption stands too large in the way. I do agree that the living standard in Africa and Asia wouldn't exactly suffer if 70% of their population suddenly vanished, but still...
LennoxLewis said:I think we could provide the entire world of a decent standard of living, but irreversible corruption stands too large in the way. I do agree that the living standard in Africa and Asia wouldn't exactly suffer if 70% of their population suddenly vanished, but still...
tchitt said:Agreed. There's no reason all seven billion of us couldn't have a substantial meal every day... It's just that the powers that be have other things in mind.
Not bad, but a far cry from my Trillion Quadrillion. I would like to have the honor of being the next moron you speak of on discussion forums.binzing said:I once had a moron on our local newspaper's discussion forum try and tell me the Earth could support 50 BILLION people.
binzing said:I once had a moron on our local newspaper's discussion forum try and tell me the Earth could support 50 BILLION people. Needless to say he refused to give me any links when I asked.