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What are people doing? Live-ish estimates based on global population dynamics

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Re: What are people doing? Live-ish estimates based on global population dynamics

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I'm surprised at the surface difference between birth and death rate because we're told the aggregate rate of increase is declining. The difference between the two suggests birth outruns death by 2:1 which feels steep for something which will max out in 2050.

I realise sub-saharan Africa continues to be high birthrate and is a huge component of world population, but the trend of increased economic activity to lower birth rate is really high worldwide, and most western economies in the OECD would be in decline, were it not for migration.

Re: What are people doing? Live-ish estimates based on global population dynamics

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Am I the only one surprised & perplexed about a phone representing “leisure”?

What single emoji would you choose instead? It seems reasonable to me.

the dancing or partying ones, although admittedly we all scroll the phone more

Re: What are people doing? Live-ish estimates based on global population dynamics

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Am I the only one surprised & perplexed about a phone representing “leisure”?

What single emoji would you choose instead? It seems reasonable to me.

Beach umbrella, couch, person in lotus position, a book…

Nothing outrageous, but it’s an interesting shift of perspective.

Re: What are people doing? Live-ish estimates based on global population dynamics

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Just the other day, walking through a sleepy country town (Hawks Nest, NSW, AU), I was explaining to my partner how I'd love to have an AR overlay of the town that told me, statistically, what each person in each house was doing.

Ideally it'd consider an estimate of the house's value and use vision to assess the real-time appearance of the property to further hone its model.

If you could do that next, please. Oh and buy me a Vision Pro. Cheers.

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