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This is bad news only for the capitalist ideology of endless growth.
Yep.
✅Good for the planet.
✅Good for societies and humans in general.
✅Good for wildlife.
✅Good for our longevity as a species.
❌Bad for people who exploit others to gain money and resources.
Good. I'm glad there will be an unstoppable reckoning coming to these unapologetically savage fuckers.
The other thing it's bad for is getting exceptional people. If you need 1 in a million people it's easier the more millions of people you have
It's already plenty bad how many stay in poverty their whole life, wealth inequality is a much bigger barrier than a raw count of people. Most of those one in a million never get an opportunity to make a difference just because of where they started