• Boomkop3@reddthat.com
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    2 years ago

    life does actually auto balance, even in humans. Ever noticed countries with higher child mortality rates having higher birth rates too? Other animals have similar behaviours

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    2 years ago

    Lol, edgy OP thinks they’re smarter than everyone else, when their wrong meme is just… lame.

    • Rotten_potato@lemmy.world
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      2 years ago

      There’s certainly a lot of group think happening on Lemmy which makes some threads a bit boring so I applaud the OP for daring to post their (bad, misguided, unfunny) meme regardless of its (lack of) quality.

  • lugal@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    Many capitalist models depend on exponential growth. That doesn’t exist in nature (I think to even in cancer so I too disagree with the original meme on some level but agree with the overall notion)

    What is very common in biology is logistic growth, or the “S curve”. It starts like an exponential function, looks almost linear in the middle and approaches a maximum at the end.

    You can model it as an exponential curve if you’re only interested in the beginning but to extrapolate it further is just wrong.

    Take lily in a pond. It might double each day for a while, but will slow down eventually. When it covers half the area at one day, it won’t cover it all the next. At that point, it takes as long to cover everything except what it did at the start, as it took to cover half the pond from the start (approximately of cause).

    Economic models often don’t take this into account but just assume exponential growth which is wrong and not found in biology.

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        2 years ago

        Many capitalist models depend on exponential limitless growth. That doesn’t exist in nature

        I mean, that doesn’t change much. There ain’t no other limitless growth in life, is there? The key difference between exponential logistic growth is that the latter has a limite.

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    2 months ago

    People expect limitless growth because our monetary system has a kind of a limitless amount of money in it decreasing its value over time. You cannot just save money, you need it to always grow for it to keep its value. If there was a finite amount of money savings would just works.

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    2 years ago

    I wonder how many of the downvotes think ‘Reductio ad absurdum’ is a spell from Harry Potter and not a Latin philosophical phrase.

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        2 years ago

        Less than there are upvotes thinking the opposite. Oh no the troglodytes are outnumbered :(