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Default The REAL housing crisis: TOO MANY PEOPLE


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Nature has a way of limiting population growth of most any species.
Mankind has, temporarily, gone beyond that bounds.


Hardly.

Humankind has been more propsperous and healthy than at anytime in
history.

One way or another, it will catch up with him. Either slowly in forms
of famine and shrinking of resources; or a major calamity.


Yeah, right. Paul Erlich pronouned the same thing and wound up looking
like an idiot.

Nature will fix the aftermath.

Economically, you can't stagnate or shrink the population size and
expect economic growth.


Population demographics has very little to do with it. A small
free-market nation will always outproduce a large (or small) fascistic
one.

You can't make enough people care enough to contribute to such a manual
fix to overpopulation (limiting birthrate to 2 per couple over many,
many generations). It will have to happen on its own.


It already is in a sense. Mark Styen has note that, outside the Muslim
segments, all populations are heading for rapid decrease. This is only a
factor if the next generations are expected to bail out older generations
and their profligit welfare/nanny states.




Capitalism is based on more. Of the more, more consumers is part of the
equation to continue its growth.


Ummm...no.

It is based on expanding production; the number of participants is damn near
irrelevant. (Think: rising boat, not # of boats).

It is also the basis for Social Security. If there's not more, the
consumer contribution must increase both for consumer goods and Social
Security. Its the same thing.


??? you talking about?


To reduce such a needed contribution in a stagnant or reducing population,
total purchase of consumer goods in dollars must decrease as well as
Social Security benefits.

Economics 101.


Econ 101 according to whom (or rather, what school?)