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Tay Zonday
@tayzonday
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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Ben 🟪
@benersing
This has certainly been the case historically when output was more directly correlated with low cost human labor inputs. I’m not convinced it will be the case in the future as AI plays an increasingly significant role in the economy. Right now, I’d say we’re somewhere in the middle in the U.S./high income countries, and closer to the historical norm across emerging markets. Genuinely curious how anthropologists consider the role of tech in the perspective you're describing?
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