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Population shrinkage, good or bad? Population shrinkage, good or bad?

12-11-2014 , 12:30 PM
So, I saw this on the MSN front page. I've always thought the idea of scaling back our population is a good thing. Is this guy way off, or am I?

http://www.msn.com/en-us/money/marke...E621?ocid=iehp
12-11-2014 , 12:32 PM
Lol. Nevermind, just read where he seriously considers the possibility of "Children of Men" happening. Confirmed whack job
12-11-2014 , 12:33 PM
Maybe population just got out of the pool?
12-11-2014 , 01:07 PM
The idea of a low birth rate being a big problem seems silly as long as you're not too worried about the ethnic make up. As long as you're a country with a relatively high standard of living you should be able to encourage people to immigrate to your country.

And you can be a lot more selective in who you allow to immigrate into your country than you can be on who you allow to be born in your country.

Edit: Started reading the article and gave up once he got into the "Woe is me, the middle class" bull****. Charity shouldn't be mandated, but people should pay for my kids to be educated because somehow that can't be considered charity. Gotcha.
12-11-2014 , 03:32 PM
Pull it out and shoot it on their belly.
12-12-2014 , 10:43 AM
people live to long, we dont need more peoples
12-12-2014 , 08:42 PM
good, more room for me
12-12-2014 , 09:47 PM
Finally read a few paragraphs from that article.

Apparently the guy gets his philosophy from Peter Griffin's advice to junkies:

Have as many kids as you can, cause that makes it more likely that one of those kids will grow up and make it big in Hollywood.

Then who's payin the bills, huh?

Hollywood kid.
12-12-2014 , 09:56 PM
seems kinda bad since living is a really good thing. I think most people would prefer it to not living.
12-12-2014 , 11:34 PM
Mandatory global population cap of 100,000,000 IMO.
12-12-2014 , 11:48 PM
It's going to be a rough time for those who believe in infinite economic growth when world population flattens out somewhere around 10 billion.
12-13-2014 , 07:03 AM
s'all good, brah, NASA will save us by making it cheap to recycle our own urine for drinking water
12-14-2014 , 12:51 AM
I know for damn sure there are way too many people on 2p2. Long overdue for a culling, a Stalinist purge if you will, a Maoist cultural revolution.

      
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