The current state of the world would tend to suggest that advanced societies come with an expiration date after which they collapse to extinction for a number of related reasons. One is that the attrition rate of the population drops, leading to people becoming longer lived. This in turn leads either to overpopulation causing resource depletion or to an ageing population where resources go towards supporting growing numbers of older people instead of raising children. Either way the result is social collapse followed by extinction, the only difference being whether the last individual starves to death or dies of old age.
Even if some solution to this problem could be found, social collapse would likely still occur, as advanced societies tend to set up a centralized resource distribution system, which over time has to become more efficient so as to remain profitable. This leads to the labor of most men becoming obsolete or fungible and expendable. Since resources trend to becoming essentially a free good granted by the big shots running the system, females will come to distain the decent men of high ability they have previously depended on in favor of those big shots and "R breeding strategist" male dirtbags. Cultural collapse generally will occur because the only value rewarded will be currying favor with the men in charge, so people will be judged solely on that basis. The values necessary to build the system in the first place such as intelligence, loyalty, creativity etc. will be culturally and genetically selected against until the quality of the population is reduced to such an extent that the system collapses. Since by then everyone is completely dependent on the system, starvation results.
There does not seem to be any viable long-term solution to these problems.
Is sustainable advanced society possible?
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