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
In bizzaro world, more kids leads to more happiness, not more happiness leads to more kids.
people like Matty Yglesias and this guy are gonna be writing opinion pieces in like 6 months time when Roe is overtuned, about how a nationwide abortion ban is the only way the US can truly reach 1 Billion Americans in order to compete with China, and how that's a good thing actually, and everyone's gonna be so like wait was this fascist all along /s
1 Billion Americans in order to compete with China
hard to compete when the majority of the extra 700,000,000 are going to attend severely underfunded public schools and then working at Instacart living 12 to a room
Always left unsaid, why would I want to compete with China?
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
These are probably the same people on that "overpopulation is causing climate change and starvation" bullshit
Yes. This is 100% the one reason china is doing better than us.
:expert-shapiro:
open borders implies there are still borders that can be closed.
America, Population 1 Billion: our Bullets will blot out the sun!
More anecdotally, have you ever visited a city and felt a sense of stagnation and decline? For me, that feeling is more common in a city that is losing residents rather than gaining them. There seem to be fewer and less diverse restaurants, theaters, even street musicians. In contrast, the most exciting states, cities and neighborhoods have lots of new venues and new people. Over the last decade the three fastest growing states, in percentage terms, are Utah, Idaho and Texas. I’ve recently visited the latter two and felt a palpable sense of excitement and ambition.
he asked the man at the gate, "what should I expect from this city?"
"Well, what was your last city like?", he replied
Shuts out everyone at the border and kills half their population through negligence, while the other half suffers poverty
"Our population is dropping! Quick! We need to fix this!"
Ecofash gonna ecofash.
I honestly don't know what comes next. But we're going to start running into a serious water crisis eventually, and people out in the rural districts are going to be on the losing side of that tug-of-war.
There was some podcast I was listening to a week or two back about some billionaire out in Utah insisting the state could grow to 20M. They had Liam on as a guest from WTYP, and were all just flabbergasted at the idea the state could continue to water its own residents, much less an extra six times that number.
What does ecofascism look like when you're in Arizona, staring north into Utah, and they tell you "Sorry but Glen Canyon's all ours. No water for you"?
To some extent, I do want a billion Americans, but only by being accommodating for climate regugees through massive infrastructure planning and spending in the relatively climatically stable Great Lakes region. There wouldn't be much of an "American" national identity as it is currently defined due to the dramatic population changes should such a fever dream be executed.
It won't happen because libs are increasingly ecofascistic and don't care about long-term climate preparedness or saving people from the third world, but I can dream.
