> High population growth is associated with poverty, not prosperity nope. the us for example had a much higher population growth than eastern europe. every wes

> High population growth is associated with poverty, not prosperity nope. the us for example had a much higher population growth than eastern europe. every western country continues to experience population growth. the population growth pre 1990 in eastern europe was at a healthy 1%. stagnation and negative rates started in the 90s, which was hardly a period of prosperity in eastern europe > Countries that stagnated for 50 years went through a 10x growth in 30 years after the Soviet grip disappeared tell that to everyone that dreams about leaving and working in western europe