Wouldn’t it be a lot easier and more effective to stop immigration and control the borders, if the goal were population control?
I’ve had liberals blow up at me for suggesting this.
If we’re consuming too much as a country, stop bringing people here who inflate their lifestyle and add to the population. Their answer is that we have a moral obligation to let in the poor and cut back our own lifestyle.
I run into the same excuses when I discuss this as a solution to automation taking all our jobs. If you really think we need UBI for 1/3 to 2/3 of the population, logically it is immoral to add to the labor pool. Close the borders, deport illegal immigrants, stop bringing in more people at any skill level. Let the number of people competing for jobs that cannot be automated or outsourced decline ... then you don’t need as many on welfare.
And you have to close the border anyway, because you cannot afford UBI if you have an increasing dependent population.