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And now less than half a century later, there are even people who are worried about falling birth rates in some places, because apparently it's concerning if we
by saghm 1y ago
And now less than half a century later, there are even people who are worried about falling birth rates in some places, because apparently it's concerning if we don't keep growing the population at the same rate.
- FredPret 1y agoIt is concerning when all of our major social systems are built on the idea of an growing population and a growing economy (most pressing right now is funding pensions). Maybe we'll have a billion humans living in orbit in a century. Unsure if they'll be willing to pay Earth Tax though.
- mothballed 1y agoUS Citizens have to pay taxes even in orbit or on the ISS, or even on Mars or wherever in the universe they may be. This is fairly unique though, there's like one African dictatorship that does the same and that's about it.
- FredPret 1y agoLet's see how that goes after the Lunar Tea Party
- saghm 1y agoThat sounds a lot more like an argument for being concerned about our major social systems than the population trend. I guess I just don't think that introducing millions of extra humans into existence purely to avoid fixing Social Security or other similar issues makes any amount of sense.
- amanaplanacanal 1y agoImmigration can easily cover that though. If you can get past the widespread anti-immigrant sentiment.
- msgodel 1y agoImmigration at that scale is completely indistinguishable from invasion. At small scales you can have them give up their culture and assimilate but at replacement scales you just turn your country into a third world country. That's completely unacceptable.
- mothballed 1y agoDubai has managed to not let that happen even at rates far faster than replacement, but they don't give their immigrants voting rights, and usually not permanent residence (unless they are rich).
- msgodel 1y agoRight the only way to actually use immigration that way is essentially slaves and that has other economic (not to mention horrible moral) problems.
- mothballed 1y agoThey definitely have literal slaves there, as well as the highest per capita rate of influx of high-net-worth individuals of anywhere in the world, and then a lot of people in-between.
- unsnap_biceps 1y agoinvasion is forced upon the receiving country and immigration is controlled by the receiving country. They are not the same thing at all
- amanaplanacanal 1y agoImmigration is easily distinguishable from invasion, by anybody who understands the concept of consent. One is invited, the other is unwanted.
- mathiaspoint 1y ago