system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
If the world's population were half of it's current number, would the average person be wealthier?

Would the average wealth increase, as there would be less people to distribute things to? Putting it in an other way, would decreasing the population actually help us?
gpt
If you would snap your finger and cut the population in half, there would be a somewhat brief period where there is more stuff to go around.

But at the end of the day, you can only consume what you produce, cutting production in half cuts consumption in half, but of course because we also cut people in half, the per capita figures shouldn't really change.