Population control: When does it become necessary?

[The Comrade]

what benefit do more people bring?

[exploited]

[The Comrade]

well that makes a big assumption about people

[John Galt]

people provide a range of goods and services for me plus they are capable of introducing ideas.

teach a tiger how to drive taxis and their value has increased astronomically. deer have more value to me because i eat them. i can't eat a tiger, it's illegal

[The Comrade]

what do 40 million extra people in china do for you that the billion already there don't?

[John Galt]

[The Dharma Bum]

More people doesn't actually make things cheaper in the long run, it merely means on biological level you have more competition. This means that more people in existence has no other possible effect but to make make things more expensive on the whole, since there is way more demand for the available resources. This is basic stuff. What I am trying to get through to you is that you do not feel the bite of this reality only because of temporary situational characteristics that give you, as a 20th century American, a distinct advantage in access to these resources over many of the other human organisms on the planet.

This position is not stable, the shift has already begun. Since we know this it behooves us to harness whatever intelligence we can muster and figure out a way that is sustainable over the long term instead of saying "f**k it" and get what you can out of it until it all falls down.

Stating these problems don't exist is simply run of the mill denial. Any rational person can see the writing on the wall.

[John Galt]

corn costs 10c an ear in summer. once it costs over a dollar an ear at the height of summer for 10 years in a row i'll take that as writing

but yes you're right i don't care if everyone in africa starves to death they have no relation to me. i don't even think i've ever received one product produced from africa. still, im not going to get my nose in their business and tell them they should have less children. that's their preoperative and it'll work itself out if it doesn't work out

[The Comrade]

[The Comrade]