Though there's theories about the population count plateauing soon, currently humans overall still mostly have an overpopulation problem, so I'd imagine a lot of people would say "awesome!" and continue to go on their lives exploiting the population cap. Either as a freebie fix to actual overpopulation, or people best poised to profit in a zero-sum game (assuming the cap applies at a uniform rate across everyone, countries with poorer healthcare and higher mortality rates would start to be edged out by countries with better health care).
nejinoki t1_j2w2b19 wrote
Reply to comment by AutoModerator in [WP] Humanity has finally reached a population of 10B. What should have only been mildly interesting became top news when the clouds world round said, "Data limit reached, please upgrade membership to continue growing your civilization." The population has been unable to grow since. by AurumArgenteus
Though there's theories about the population count plateauing soon, currently humans overall still mostly have an overpopulation problem, so I'd imagine a lot of people would say "awesome!" and continue to go on their lives exploiting the population cap. Either as a freebie fix to actual overpopulation, or people best poised to profit in a zero-sum game (assuming the cap applies at a uniform rate across everyone, countries with poorer healthcare and higher mortality rates would start to be edged out by countries with better health care).