This is kinda good news, I think The people who advocate for bigger families are often the same people who advocate to remove state support for raising children And financial inequality is only going to get worse, especially with AI, and so very few people will be really able to afford kids So, realistically, the world's population will be much smaller in the future. It's better to plan for that now

If Bitcoin fails I agree with you. This will probably be a long and bloody route, but... Productivity gains increase exponentially with the total population of people who have achieved some basic standard of living. AI can not solve human problems; it is a tool for humans to solve problems. The population is shrinking because central banking is stealing the value that should be passed on through technology decreasing prices. They openly admit stealing our global productivity gains, plus 2% minimum. Decreasing your wage and increasing prices, making life more difficult every year. If Bitcoin prevents inflation, we can, for the first time, see all productivity passed to the consumer. I believe this will massively increase the human population, which in return exponentially increases our problem-solving abilities. More people, more compute. Then becoming a push-pull thing. It will most likely happen in grand accelerating cycles where our problem-solving abilities expand the carrying capacity of the planet, followed by population growth to fill the space. Or, at times, the opposite — population overshoots carrying capacity, quality of living goes down, creating new problems for us to over-solve. We are probably already in these cycles. They are on a scale of a few hundred years at this point, getting faster each cycle. With central banking being a weaponized cancer affecting the natural cycles. It basically stole 100 years of technological growth passing on to the population, through the process of siphoning the value from the cycles, preventing it from growing further. Interesting to think about what would have happened if we discovered sound money before Central banking. Compounding growth into all fields building off others success limited only by our population size. Would we have cities on Mars, doubled our life expectancy? Most likely achieved more than we can imagine.

I think you might be a bit too ideological about the role of central banks. I mean, you might be right that they are causing lots of problems today. But that doesn't guarantee that all the world's problems will disappear if central banks disappear. Thanks for your thoughtful response, but we need to be realistic about the hyperbitcoinized world. When Bitcoin replaces fiat, we're still going to have financial inequality. If there is a small group of super rich, and the no-coiners are competing against each other to get a few sats from the rich folks, then they will remain in poverty. If Bitcoin succeeds in shrivelling away the state, then there won't be any (pretense of a) state to help poor people. Labour won't be very valuable in a world dominated by AI and Robots. Anyone without bitcoin will starve as they have no way to earn satoshis. The only alternative to mass starvation is that the population decreases voluntarily in advance.