I wrote this last September which, with the onset of the coronavirus and the truly dystopian government imposed restrictions on individual liberty by the Chinese government, now reads as rather prophetic:
"if you're a military analyst you might come to regard a huge population mass of like 1.4 billion to be a burden rather than a strategic advantage. What a huge target! How do you feed it, how do you control it, what happens when he gets out of control?"
Does a growing population affording huge targets in the nuclear age make America stronger?
Does a growing population that until now has unfortunately been turned over by our politicians to the Chinese as a a market for consumption of Chinese goods, really make us stronger?
Does a growing population in an age in which wealth is increasingly made not by human hands but by robots really make us stronger?
Does an increasing population in an age when wealth is generated by robots but distributed to people really make us wealthier and stronger?
There's a growing population in an age of pandemics that politicians will inevitably mean huge subsidy payments for healthcare, unemployment, bankruptcies etc. really make us stronger?
Do growing populations around the world (your reply seems to argue that all population growth everywhere is good) pressing into Europe and across our southern border really make a stronger?
Does the increase in population advanced as a cure to the threat to our Ponzi scheme that we call Social Security really only an enlargement of the very Ponzi scheme which is failing, really make us stronger?
Overpopulation steals our liberty! That is a very real threat.
