https://archive.ph/2021.12.23-185150/https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-12-23/u-s-population-growth-at-record-low-bad-for-u-s-economy-mood
https://archive.ph/2021.12.23-185150/https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-12-23/u-s-population-growth-at-record-low-bad-for-u-s-economy-mood
This is another one if those contradictions, no?
They need the destitute and poor to function as the reserve army of labor, depressing wages and replacing workers who get upity.
However the poor are also pushed into crime as a means of survival which can disrupt capitalist society.
So the capitalists switch between whichever they find most annoying moment to moment