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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 โsh**hole countries.โ 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 โgrowthโmythology.
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@m-j-r
I agree in part but not in others. childrate above the replacement isn't just planned fertility, *it's also drastically lowering mortality*. anthropologically, it seems reasonable to me that humans live as much as their time is freely consumable, and we'll invent washing machines & cars to maximize this aspect. yes, child-bearing is avoided as a luxury despite the traditional, rural counter to mortality on a subsistence farm. no, the majority of the wealth creation is still, imho, a marginal tech-augmented consumer. some rich can get richer just with mostly-mechanized product, not with bespoke labor.
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