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Each marginal person produces more than they consume. As a whole, everyone is better off for having more people.

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Only if you average it all out. The over 65 crowd does not produce more than they consume.

> The over 65 crowd does not produce more than they consume.

So that's the end goal our species should aspire to?

Produce™ and Consume™?

Eternally without relent?

Yes, that sounds great! I love my iPhone and air conditioning. Don't you?

Will you be the first to go volunteer to back to the stone ages?

I didn't think so.

I mean robots can Produce while we continue to do the Consuming

Each marginal person does not produce more environmental benefits than they consume. It's dramatically the opposite. My butt is not a carbon capture device.

Technically your mouth is.

Technically you've made some bigoted assumptions about my proclivities. :D

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