I actually think immigration and population growth can be a positive sum game. But it's not the case now, because we have runaway cost of living. More people could in theory bring the cost of living down, but there are too many government imposed Barrier to make that possible.

But it's not without tradeoffs, suburbs would need to become denser for example, or we would need to find a way to actually spring up new cities and space people out instead of cramming them all into one. And Americans don't need to make such a trade off if they don't want to. And seems like they don't want to.

And society would make a lot of positive changes if there wasn't the assumption we would have lots of people and cheap labor. Automating the shitty jobs is a real good thing, so people can do something better.

I actually think immigration and population growth can be a positive sum game. But it's not the case now, because we have runaway cost of living. More people could in theory bring the cost of living down, but there are too many government imposes Barrie's to make that possible.

But it's not without tradeoffs, suburbs would need to become denser for example, or we would need to find a way to actually spring up new cities and space people out instead of cramming them all into one. And Americans don't need to make such a trade off if they don't want to. And seems like they don't want to.

And society would make a lot of positive changes if there wasn't the assumption we would have lots of people and cheap labor. Automating the shitty jobs is a real good thing, so people can do something better.