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Americans must admit that the endpoint of wealth is to have kids at lower than the population replacement rate. The only way the rich can get richer, anthropologically, is expanding market participants through a steady influx of poor people who DO reproduce above their replacement rate. Anthropologists widely document that the value proposition of childbirth (often related factors like elder care, manual labor, and population survival) is inverse to wealth. This is why Japan and South Korea are desperate for poorer immigrants. Their population is prosperous. This is also why Germany, France, the U.K. and the U.S. have needed poor immigration to expand wealth, contrary to public xenophobia or leader invocations of “sh**hole countries.” Rich residents opposing low-income housing are self-defeating. Developed countries technocratically impoverishing poor ones through currency manipulation, then titrating poverty immigration, is the only way to maintain wealth and capitalist “growth”mythology.
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(1/2) I think you're attesting causality to correlation. I also disagree with some of the statements made here, especially for countries such as Japan and Germany. Great sources to read up on this are The limits to growth and Earth4All, both authored by hundreds of scientists & the Club of Rome. The models used and explained in the papers are amongst the most accurate for socio-economic predictions ever created. 1. Higher childbirth rates are in direct relation to education, women rights and long-term economic domestic securtiy, not a "pull" factor from overdeveloped countries to re-staff cheap labor 2. The pathologic growth addiction is created, fueled and satisfied with financial capital, creating a balance sheet that is 3x as large as the real economy, based on lalaland concepts such as debt and interest. 3. Germany's pull policy for immigration was and is very clearly directed at what they call "skilled workers". Poorer immigration is an effect of solidarity principles, not of ...
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(2/2) 3. ... Germany looking to restock simple labor. There will be a time when this might be a realistic scenario, but it certainly is not the case now. There's a historical context of "Gastarbeiter" in post-war western Germany in the 50s and 60s, defined by destroyed infrastructure, missing male workforce and tons of US money. These would fit the description you made above, but the context has changed profoundly since. 4. Japan is equally, actually even more strongly due to its homogenic culture, not looking for poor immigrant labor. In reality, one of the reasons Japan is leading in robotics and automation is due to the long term plan to replace the dwindeling workforce with automation. This long-term refactoring is even injected in society from a very early stage, with campaigns, art, pop-culture and tons of funding to learn about and love robots.
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