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Originally Posted by wanderer34
There was a time where having 5+ kids was seen as nothing, now if you even have 3 kids, it's seen as too many kids, and the main reason why is because the quality of living doesn't sustain having a small family. If you're going to naturally increase the population, you're going to have to bring down the cost of housing, food, transportation, insurance, clothing, and hopefully increase the value of the dollar because inflation has been kicking America's rear end for far too long.
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Why do we want an ever-larger population, on a planet that isn't getting any bigger?
I would like to see the human population shrink a bit.
Yes, that would make the proverbial pie a bit smaller, but we would also have fewer people to divide it among.
This idea that there must be un-ending growth of people or the economy is bizarre to me.
Certainly one doesn't want to see the economy shrink much on a per capita basis.
But the status quo but for true gains in productivity would be an entirely reasonable goal.
Humans don't need more stuff collectively, we need to more stuff for those who lack the basics; that's redistribution, not more in absolute terms.
There needs to more focus on quality of life, rather than quantity.
That's true for work weeks (they should be shorter)
That's true for goods which should be better and last longer.
That's true for people who should enjoy learning, growing, contributing to society and by all means take the time to enjoy some luxuries along the way.
But today we see too many people w/home gyms that don't use'em.
We see too many people w/gym memberships that don't use them.
A 4th TV in the house doesn't make the content any more watchable.
A book gathering dust on a bookcase adds nothing to one's life.
A human race with more people, larger percentages of whom may be homeless or needy all the while destroying more of nature hardly seems ideal to me.