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I have doubts about world population figures. Regions within Nigeria have incentives to inflate their numbers so that they get more seats in government. It's also seen as bad to have population declines, so governments over-report their population. Particularly with respect to central banks, they want to over-report the population because they want their per-capita printing to not look as bad.

Maybe we're already down to 6.5B or so. I'm not sure how you can verify such a big number like 8B.
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Lucid · 71w
Who gives a fuck
I1225cgh856xzzss · 71w
I tend to agree with you. It always seemed like rough guesstimations.
mattaroo · 71w
It’s fine. Humanity is eternal and with light. The robots being designed from companies like Tesla will do all the mundane, thoughtless, tedious, and simple work for us.
BottleTeams · 71w
Now measure the productivity of all those people with a made up number like GDP.
pseudo~u *likes nostr already* · 71w
Yes, how could they actually know this stuff? Reminds me of when in covid, they had these absurdly high vaccination rates (where i live). To the extent that in some age bands there were more vaccinated people than the whole population. It basically revealed that (in this case) they had grossly un...
DeathOnTheStairs · 71w
Not to mention the amount of people who were killed with the gene therapy injections!
Daniele · 71w
6.5B means africa is empty :) China might be over estimating by 100M but the rest is likely as reported.
TallBrian · 71w
Interesting thought. What are the implications? Not even sure how to think about verifying a number like this.
Bitcoin 4 Precedence! · 71w
I as well question everything now post COVID! I agree with you...
OgFOMK ArTS · 71w
Central planners never lie.
Bitcoin Quokka · 71w
Scepticism such as this is needed.
Josephus · 44w
To be fair, China has been caught manipulating its population figures for decades now, hence the ghost cities. So you have a point. Globalist ngo funding comes largely by population, so it literally pays to have more children “on paper” to beg for those resources.