• presoak@lazysoci.alOP
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    2 days ago

    Well I figured if you create more people then you create more customers. And with new frontiers comes new opportunities to dump product into taming that frontier (thus more sales of product). And if people die then the birthrate fills the hole abd delivers new customers. And disasters function much like new frontiers.

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      Well, yeah, we didn’t evolve to occupy a place, we kept getting wiped and having to start over. While something like a Greenland shark goes 50 years before it can reproduce.

      We evolved as prey, but we don’t have any predators left. So there’s nothing to control our population.

      But that’s way off topic