life does actually auto balance, even in humans. Ever noticed countries with higher child mortality rates having higher birth rates too? Other animals have similar behaviours
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Until the sun goes out...
What do you mean?
The sun is part of our closed system. It won't last forever, and without it no life will survive, and even if it does, the remaining resources needed to survive are fundamentally limited on the scale of eternity.
The assumption of the infinite is not an axiom of life but of the philosophical principle of Will. Which is fine if you embrace paradox and assume a will that is sufficiently exercised can live forever - and I see how biology could become a model for such an idea. But it's not intrinsic in biology. That said, the idea of infinite repetition or perpetuation of the finite is no problem at least from a Nietzschean perspective...
That doesn't change that growth isn't not limited
all of life has dying built in… that’s a pretty big limit to your limitless growth….
in an ecosystem when a population doesn’t balance, that’s called a plague and it kills themselves and everything else.
Found this digging through the Controversial pile. What a controversy indeed! From a non-political perspective, everything written in the meme seems factually correct, so I'm marking this down as some of the best bait ever
Lol, edgy OP thinks they're smarter than everyone else, when their wrong meme is just... lame.
There's certainly a lot of group think happening on Lemmy which makes some threads a bit boring so I applaud the OP for daring to post their (bad, misguided, unfunny) meme regardless of its (lack of) quality.
Many capitalist models depend on exponential growth. That doesn't exist in nature (I think to even in cancer so I too disagree with the original meme on some level but agree with the overall notion)
What is very common in biology is logistic growth, or the "S curve". It starts like an exponential function, looks almost linear in the middle and approaches a maximum at the end.
You can model it as an exponential curve if you're only interested in the beginning but to extrapolate it further is just wrong.
Take lily in a pond. It might double each day for a while, but will slow down eventually. When it covers half the area at one day, it won't cover it all the next. At that point, it takes as long to cover everything except what it did at the start, as it took to cover half the pond from the start (approximately of cause).
Economic models often don't take this into account but just assume exponential growth which is wrong and not found in biology.
Limitless != exponential.
That's not what happens in nature
I wonder how many of the downvotes think 'Reductio ad absurdum' is a spell from Harry Potter and not a Latin philosophical phrase.
I wonder how many downvotes are because this meme suck and its 'point' is moot?
Less than there are upvotes thinking the opposite. Oh no the troglodytes are outnumbered :(
I coughed while trying to say it out loud and a demon appeared, unfortunately the demon only speaks Aramaic so now we're both confused.
No your mistake was not exclusively criticizing capitalism on lemmy. This place is dumb.
I really roll my eyes about the "dismantle the capitalist system because food costs money" memes. Like dude, dismantle it to what? Do you think no one starves when there's no capitalism?
"We've tried nothing and nothing works"