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Countries should cease trying to increase their populations at the expense of quality of life. This is but one example of many where quality of life suffers an
by Kephael 10y ago
Countries should cease trying to increase their populations at the expense of quality of life. This is but one example of many where quality of life suffers and Soylent Green diets are suggested to accommodate the infinite growth crowd. I have a better idea - rather than creating a society that looks like some dystopian nightmare, we simply keep populations in check with the environment.
- zepto 10y agoCountries with balanced or decreasing populations can't compete economically.
- khattam 10y agoOr government could let people decide how many children they want to have and let them pay for their kids. It will automatically solve the problem in the long run. Governments trying to control it will lead to problems like they have in China (because having children was largely de-incentivised, they are going to have a big hole in the working population soon and have a lot of old people to support) and Europe (because they are incentivising population growth now, they are bound to increase a generation of population burst which will be a problem in the long run).
- prawn 10y agoPerhaps if governments made more effort on birth control so people were more likely to control and decide rather than react to accidents and impulses. I imagine that far too often people have more children than they can afford and their attention is stretched too thin.