Post #3767114

2026-07-04 16:02 UTC

Overpopulation is a eugenics myth. Stop spreading it. The problem is our economic and political systems incentivize the hoarding of resources behind private ownership in order to leverage access to them in return for status and power.

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@feetandballs@lemmy.zip 2026-07-04 23:35

Stop handwaving from your underinformed pedestal and listen. Human population exploded in response to becoming more stationary and, more directly, in response to widespread grain agriculture (encouraging earlier weaning via oatmeal so ladies could get back to work). As populations grew, so did food demands… keep going for a bit and you get states and taxes and wealth disparity. Keep going for a bit and you get to where we are today. I’m not saying kill people - I’m saying that resource hoarding became a thing when we stopped hunting and gathering and started being more competitive over land and other resources. We started being more competitive when we started rubbing shoulders too frequently with people outside of our core tribes - when population exploded.

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