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Originally Posted by genrex
A country needs greater than 2.8 babies per couple in order to grow $$$
What's better in the long run -- an economic system based on continually increasing the population, or an economic system that is stable and sustainable?
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Lots of truth here.
Watch the online series, "Money as Debt". It explains how our economic system demands ever-increasing productivity (population growth is one mechanism to achieve this) to pay the debt (usury, interest) on today's and yesterday's expenditures for consumption of finite resources. It's a nice watch and simple enough to understand while shining the light on often-wonkish topics like fiat currency creation, fractional reserve banking, the case for a "real" currency based in something like gold, etc.
Our "leaders" are powerless to stand up to the banking interests that perpetuate this system that dates back hundreds of years, instead doing everything possible to continually stoke the fires of consumptionism to ever-higher levels, which includes incentivizing procreation, even if it's at the hands of ill-equipped or poor people. It all ties together and all comes down to the deeply-held greed of a few select individuals who REALLY control things and will stop at nothing to retain their power - no matter what it does to the planet or anyone else. It might sound conspiracy-theory-ish but it's all very real and it all fits together.