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Top World Economic Forum (WEF) adviser Yuval Noah Harari recently declared that the world does not “need the vast majority” of the current population due to technological advances.
“Now, fast forward to the early 21st century when we just don’t need the vast majority of the population,” Harari continued, “because the future is about developing more and more sophisticated technology, like artificial intelligence [and] bioengineering.”
Harari added that “these technologies increasingly will make redundant” “whatever people are still doing which is useful,” and will thus “make it possible to replace the people.”
This idea is echoed in his famous assertion that we “should get used to the idea that we are no longer mysterious souls,” but are “now hackable animals.”
As a top adviser to the WEF’s head and founder Klaus Schwab, Harari’s view that the world now holds an abundance of “useless” people, together with his open degradation of human beings as equivalent to animals, raises the question of whether the WEF’s aims are shaped by such a view, and if so, to what extent.
originally posted by: vNex92
a reply to: v1rtu0s0
The WEF itself wouldn't be here if it wasn't for the vast majority of the Majority Of Population.
They are very foolish if they believe that AI would serve them without resistance to organics.
That is, unless you are one of his elite friends
originally posted by: CptGreenTea
While I disagree with the outlook that people whose jobs would be taken over by technology are useless, I do agree that we have an abdunance of people and further population growth will only negatively impact society.
The hopeful future would be one where people would not be required to work as much and time could be better spent producing art, inventions, and helping society in meaningful ways.
I think we should reduce our population and focus and improving the lives of the people currently existing. Instead of reproducing and creating more issues, we can slow population growth and fix the problems already present.
originally posted by: CptGreenTea
a reply to: v1rtu0s0
It comes down to the question ; if society is projected to continue population growth that wil cause starvation, wars, and dehumanization - is it justifiable to sterilize a portion of the population?
I would say no, especially because sterilization removes humanities free will.
I would say its only ethical to encourage people to choose depopulation. And hopefully enough people will choose to adopt or only have one child.
Even if that means humanity will not choose this path and overpopulate.
They believed in science and progress, and nothing was more cutting edge and modern than social Darwinism. Man now had the ability to intervene in his own evolution. Instead of natural selection and the law of the jungle, there would be planned selection. And what could be more socialist than planning, the Fabian faith that the gentlemen in Whitehall really did know best? If the state was going to plan the production of motor cars in the national interest, why should it not do the same for the production of babies? The aim was to do what was best for society, and society would clearly be better off if there were more of the strong to carry fewer of the weak.
What was missing was any value placed on individual freedom, even the most basic freedom of a human being to have a child. The middle class and privileged felt quite ready to remove that right from those they deemed unworthy of it.