Good. There are too many people-and that is the real root of the vast majority of our problems.
Why do you feel that’s a bad thing?
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Look at the population then and now.
US population
1960-179,323,175
2020-331,449,281
1950 was 158,804,396
Doubled in 3 generations. Ridiculous.
And Bernie Sanders needs to shut his trap about the Great Green Hoax.
No it is not my argument. My argument has been the length of time immigrants spend on welfare and why that’s an important stat
Because the economy depends on replacement through birth
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How? That doesn’t make any sense. We had an economy in 1950 and 1960.
I keep hearing that, like a mantra.
Right and it expanded. Now it’s big.
It would need to start contracting
Ok, so what? Do we really need thousands of new lawyers and influencers every year?
We need more people so they can buy more crap they don’t need? Why?
Expanded why?
Look at China. They got rid of their one child policy because the growth of their middle class destroyed their birth rate.
They are doing that because a growing economy is necessary to remain a world power
Why? And why does the US need to be a “world power”, whatever that means?
The US wasn’t a world power in 1950? 1960?
Good. There were a trillion of them anyway.
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Yes with an exploding economy. What was the gdp growth rate in 1950 and 1960
Who cares? Governments? I don’t care about governments being happy.
What do we get in return for “exploding 
economies”?
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The contracting will be painful and the labor shortages will create a recession. A prolonged one. A generational one possibly. Like the one Japan went through and never recovered from.
That’s the tale. Maybe the model is all wrong.
What do we get in return for “exploding economies”?
Exploding homelessness?
Exploding illiterate kids?
Exploding wards of the state?
Exploding pollution?
Exploding wars over resources?
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Why?
What labor shortages?
As the birth population drops this will in turn drop the work ages population that will result in shortages
I don’t disagree that may be the model is all wrong.
Balderdash. If there are fewer people, there will be fewer companies and therefore fewer job demands.
5% or more of the population isn’t working already.
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