Modern economists, along with politicians and agenda driven ideologues, often preach the mantra of endless population growth as a means to economic wealth. The more people, the higher the GDP, the higher the GDP the more wealth, the more wealth, the happier and better off the people. Have more babies!
If you do not have more babies, economic ruin is coming for you. Your way of life will be destroyed. If we do not have more babies, it will be an unmitigated disaster!
Endless Population equals Endless Misery
It is clear that endless population growth is something that will destroy the world. We have limited resources and are already fighting wars for oil, water, and even food. We need look no further than the animal kingdom to see the result of endless population growth. Wolves who kill all the prey eventually starve. Deer who eat all the vegetation eventually starve.
It is obvious that we must not continue on this path and yet the economists and elite encourage us to do just that. Why?
Endless Lust for Money
The economic rules we slavish follow today that preach an ever-growing GDP help the wealthy but they harm the average person. The economic platforms were created by the rich, for the rich.
The rich want more money and the way they get that is to have an endless supply of worker bees feeding them their wealth.
Japan has a lower population and a lower GDP than they had 30 years ago. The debt to GDP ratio is enormous. Six children are born for every twelve people who die. By all the standards the economists ardently tell us, it must be a country in decline with a population living below poverty, starving even. Spoiler, it’s not.
This is impossible if you believe the lies the wealthy instruct economists to feed you.
Equilibrium
Yes, more people are dying in Japan than are being born. The wealthy claim with straight faces this means the population will eventually reach zero. The people will cease to exist. This is, of course, utter nonsense. Eventually, as older people die off, the population will stabilize and reach a healthy equilibrium
This is the desired outcome. It is not something to be feared, it is something to celebrate.
Conclusion
I am not a radical. I do not propose radical solutions. I simply suggest that we stop giving the rich our food, our children and grandchildren, for them to feed their insatiable appetites. Let the population reach an optimum, sustainable level, and then allow humanity to reach our potential.
If we continue to follow the endless population mantra we will decline, wither, and die, while the rich party on their yachts and laugh at our misery all the while blaming us for it.
Tom Liberman