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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

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[–] presoak@lazysoci.al 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I guess things could be better if we avoided saturation.

Through death, disaster, expanding population or new frontiers

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Market saturation...

The theory of natural limits states: "Every product or service has a natural consumption level. We just don't know what it is until we launch it, distribute it, and promote it for a generation's time (20 years or more) after which further investment to expand the universe beyond normal limits can be a futile exercise." —Thomas G. Osenton, economist

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_saturation

Corps want more people, not less. Because people are potential customers, or cheap labor. Even if neither, their existence as extra unneeded labor reduces the price of labor.

You seem to have been talking about "population saturation" which I get the meaning of but I'm not sure it's a thing.

[–] presoak@lazysoci.al 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Well I figured if you create more people then you create more customers. And with new frontiers comes new opportunities to dump product into taming that frontier (thus more sales of product). And if people die then the birthrate fills the hole and delivers new customers. And disasters function much like new frontiers.

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Well, yeah, we didn't evolve to occupy a place, we kept getting wiped and having to start over. While something like a Greenland shark goes 50 years before it can reproduce.

We evolved as prey, but we don't have any predators left. So there's nothing to control our population.

But that's way off topic