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Originally Posted by Cut-Throat
That's why we need plenty of immigrants!
I heard a radio program the other day that recognizes that to have a great economy you have to have growth and you have to have people to have growth.
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Well, I follow that and that has been a classic element of economics for at least a couple hundred years now. Yet sometime it has to end. When you get 6B people in Los Angeles or Iowa. There is a limit on how many people the planet can support. It may not come for 50 years or 200, but it will happen. The world will get (through positive or negative means) to a point where the population hits a sustainable level and then there will not be population growth. There still could be economic growth through increased productivity but it will be a slower growth. And it will be (or at least could be if things don't reach a MadMax level of survival struggle) a decent situation on the planet.
I just suggest we get away from the idea that population growth will solve our problems. That may bring as many problems to our kids as it purpots to solve. Or you could say that for us though, growth is fine--after us the deluge?
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