Aurini comments on Why safety is not safe - Less Wrong

48 Post author: rwallace 14 June 2009 05:20AM

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Comment author: Aurini 15 June 2009 09:22:05PM 6 points [-]

You're assuming that 90% of the population can spare 10%. If things were to revert to subsistence-level farming that might not be possible.

Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 15 June 2009 09:46:21PM *  2 points [-]

It's always possible to spare if not 10% then 5% or 2%, still enough to sustain a considerable number of people. I don't see what is the point of your argument.