Corporations are strongly pushing natalism which seems to have found a home in contrarian conservative politics. The formulae is simple, more consumers and thus

Corporations are strongly pushing natalism which seems to have found a home in contrarian conservative politics. The formulae is simple, more consumers and thus better prices for goods which corporations make and the assets they own. There are more workers competing for the same jobs so their input costs are cheaper. The actual costs associated with large populations are externalized. Keeping a ponzi economic system going is simply a bonus. I'm a foot-voting libertarian (anti-corporatist) not a commie but this shit stinks. We're not going to get greater innovation out of more people if those people have to spend their lives toiling to survive while eating increasingly unhealthy food. I don't see why we couldn't have graceful degradation of the population. The idea that we'll need many people to look after us as we get old is predicated on people living rather unhealthy lifestyles. We would be far better off looking after our health and being good stewards of the environment.