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@petergleick

World population in 1756: ~650 million

World population in 1879: ~1.6 billion

World population today: ~8.016 billlion

...so obviously the problem isn't a matter of not enough people.

Actually the fact that people who are just so fucking beyond-the-pale stupid, mediocre, and unequivocally unremarkable happen to be the richest people in the world today has a lot more to do with it than birth rates... I mean Musk is proof-positive that this isn't a meritocracy.