Thats the best case scenario, because economies would dictate massive adoption of AI assisted technologies.
At which point you won't have issues like kids being born out of selfishness because you need someone to take care of you in later years.
I want humans to exist 200 years from now, 1000 years from now. This means it's selfish if I have them for that reason too.
If people (on average) can't have children for that reason, then humanity will become extinct. It's not as if people have them for the reason of "aren't you supposed to have them!?" anymore.
Which, if you think about it, makes the "you're selfish to have kids" a sort of species-wide suicidal ideation. But then, non-suicidal people are sort of selfish, wanting to continue to keep living.
You do know that you will continue living if you don't have kids, right?
I'm glad to hear you're not selfish, however you do seem inappropriately judgy.
What have you done to ensure "humans exist 200 years from now?" Have you done anything to minimize your carbon footprint? Do you walk/bike/take the bus to work instead of drive a petrol/diesel vehicle? Have you petitioned your government to stop using fossil fuels and demand they spend money on green infrastructure and science to improve current technology?
What have you done to stop senseless wars? Do you help out at food banks? Do you support government programs to ensure that children get adequate nutrition, you know, programs like SNAP, WIC, or free school lunches/breakfasts? Since you are so invested in the species, I'm sure you're also in favor of national health service to ensure every person, documented or not, receives adequate health care.
I applaud your efforts supporting these things and am curious what other things you think will ensure the human species is not endangered by climate change, natural disasters, wars, infertility, and so forth.
This might supposed to be some snarky gotcha, but it's just dumb. I know with absolute certainty I won't continue to live, for every human dies eventually.
You could replace the "continue" with "temporarily", but it takes the bite out of it.
> I'm glad to hear you're not selfish, however you do seem inappropriately judgy.
People should judge. The 20th century experiment of non-judgementalness has been an abject failure. If one cannot analyze and determine what does and does not work (the act of judging), then one will continue to do things that don't work.
The "let's not reproduce" thing isn't working. And it's slightly disturbing that we had to run the experiment to foresee the results.
> What have you done to ensure "humans exist 200 years from now?" Have you done anything to minimize your carbon footprint?
Non sequitur nonsense.
One rhetorical about something that an individual can't actually do (though I've done my part), followed up with environmentalist propaganda that is commonly used to instill the proper behavioral sterility that you've spayed the zoomers with.
> What have you done to stop senseless wars?
If I could, why would I? Do you believe that they're serious extinction threats?
Drive by comment. The only way humans cease to exist in 200 years is if something horribly catastrophic happens. Which is much more like to happen if the population grows exponentially. And much less likely if the population declines steadily over the next 200 years.
Humanity went from just under a billion to 8 billion in 120 years. Between us and our livestock we have have completely dominated the surface of the earth, wild animals are not even close.
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/08/total-biomass-weight-...
In most mammal populations there can be wild swings in total population without extinction. Humans, at least at this point could reduce the total population by multiple times and be just fine.
Just trying to guess at carrying capacity of the earth.
In all of those examples, the fertility rate remains constant. In every single one. When the moose all die off, it's not because they all decided that they enjoyed double income households with no offspring. Or that their parents kept nagging them for grandmoose.
It's "all the vegetation on the island was stripped" and they all starved but a few.
If their fertility rate dropped, we wouldn't see it swing back and forth. The only way they even survive is that the fertility rate doesn't drop.
This will become apparent even to the current naysayers... but not nearly soon enough.
Also, UNIVERSE 25.
What horrors await.