timtyler comments on Non-Malthusian Scenarios - Less Wrong

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Comment author: timtyler 26 September 2009 12:31:23PM 0 points [-]

When non-DNA inheritance gets better at using the available resources, a likely result is more effective competition for resources with existing organisms - leaving many affected humans unemployed and dependent on alms from the government.

It is true that population growth would probably be reduced in this kind of scenario - since usually the government pays the unemployed just enough to exist on.