Reply #10: What is a die-off

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One major way for our system to produce die-offs is through crime. People who get desperate or angry about their poverty are likely to "burn down the mission". That will increase the population of our own local third world - the prison labor system.

I disagree with this, but only on grounds of the definition for a "die off." AS it empties, a die-off accrues when there is a signal even that results with massive casualties. Such as how bubonic pelage killed off 2/3rds of the human population in Europe. Famine, natural disaster, war, and drought are the forces that commonly result with human die-offs. And we have not seen these things for some time. Arguable not senses WWII.

The reason why I say crime don't produce "die-offs" is because not every one dies at once. And humans, even in an extremely crime ridden area are as likely to keep up with casualties with new births. This is called a mortality rate, or I have also seen it called as "average generation turn over" for much larger scale discussions. This is the average age of child birth vs average age of death by what ever means. But that doesn’t mean crime will not be bloody or brutal, just that it may not necessarily result with an appreciable reduction in human population.

There is also a counter-intuitive reality at work here as well. Poverty, strangely enough, seems to result with growing human populations. Scientists are quite sure why yet. Some blame instinct, as the would be parents melancholy pushes them to procreate over and over again. As it is said, sex is a vary cheep drug. The result is that a family will have a lot of young, to improve the odds that a few will survive to adulthood. Others claim poor education has a role (the dominant theory BTW), resulting in poor planing. Either way, its possible that when (or if) deep poverty sets in, that population may explode to make it worse.

That said, gangs have been known to "go to war."