To the extent that having fewer people does present an economic problem for the United States, there is of course an easy solution: let in more of the immigrants who are queuing up in multitudes to get in. There is no difference between babies born here and babies born elsewhere, so if babies boost the economy, then so do immigrants.
Humans are not fungible. The highest birth rate on the planet is Niger, a country where 8% of the population are slaves. Their culture deserves eradication, not dispersal across the First World.
It's like he's pushing a purist version of tabula rasa theory which is even more ridiculous and extreme than the opposite viewpoint, that one's personality is decided entirely by genetics and their upbringing is irrelevant.
Necessity is the mother of invention. Bringing in mass slave labor will disincentivize the need to improve automation and make it less likely to be invested in, stifling technological progress. We can come up with clever ways to improve productivity and the standard of living, or perpetually live in a stagnant society kept comfortable on the backs of the underclass.
Actaully, that's what Carl Sagan accused the Greeks of, irl that story about them having some semblance of a steam engine, but no need to use it for anything other than a piece of religious theatre/entertainment/a novelty/tourist attraction/gimmick.
On the other hand, one might argue that things are starting to look more like Ben Elton's Stark,
Humans are not fungible. The highest birth rate on the planet is Niger, a country where 8% of the population are slaves. Their culture deserves eradication, not dispersal across the First World.
It's like he's pushing a purist version of tabula rasa theory which is even more ridiculous and extreme than the opposite viewpoint, that one's personality is decided entirely by genetics and their upbringing is irrelevant.
And they keep failing to put increasing automation/advancing technology into their equation. I've already lost a trade or two to it.
You don't need so many warm bodies to do work when you have machines. The car liberated the horse, and the Bobcat liberates ditch-diggers.
Necessity is the mother of invention. Bringing in mass slave labor will disincentivize the need to improve automation and make it less likely to be invested in, stifling technological progress. We can come up with clever ways to improve productivity and the standard of living, or perpetually live in a stagnant society kept comfortable on the backs of the underclass.
Actaully, that's what Carl Sagan accused the Greeks of, irl that story about them having some semblance of a steam engine, but no need to use it for anything other than a piece of religious theatre/entertainment/a novelty/tourist attraction/gimmick.
On the other hand, one might argue that things are starting to look more like Ben Elton's Stark,