if productivity keeps going up so much, we do we still need to keep growing the population?

Question

if productivity keeps going up so much, we do we still need to keep growing the population?

In: Economics

Answer 1

We probably stopped needing to grow the population a while ago as a species. For individual economics, it’s more a matte rod competition with the other countries. So you’re not asking if it’s enough at a certain point, you’re asking if you can do better than the rest, and keep doing it.

The dynamic of population may change with the dramatic innovation in automation we’ve been seeing recently