We are so much more productive nowadays and so much more could be automated. With a fair wealth distribution, we could easily retain our standard of living despite our declining population. Could.
I would argue yes, but to a point. Should the population continue to be below replacement, that would still fail, unless we get the “best case AI situation” where it acts as a benevolent godlike intelligence that makes robots for us and runs off of renewable energy and sodium ion batteries or something.
We are so much more productive nowadays and so much more could be automated. With a fair wealth distribution, we could easily retain our standard of living despite our declining population. Could.
I would argue yes, but to a point. Should the population continue to be below replacement, that would still fail, unless we get the “best case AI situation” where it acts as a benevolent godlike intelligence that makes robots for us and runs off of renewable energy and sodium ion batteries or something.