Governments and the ruling class have been obsessed with population control ever since #Malthus published his works in the late 18th century.
It is naive to think that #Malthusianism hasn't been a national security priority of every sufficiently wealthy country for the last 200 years. The fundamental business of the State *is* population control.
If this is new to you, start catching up.
https://archive.org/details/reportoffifthint00inteuoft
"Many too many are born: for the superfluous ones was the state devised!
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The state, I call it, where all are poison-drinkers, the good and the bad: the state, where all lose themselves, the good and the bad: the state, where the slow suicide of all--is called "life." " -Nietzsche
Kinda yes, but at the same time the population grew massively. Almost uncontrollably looking at the African continent especially.
“Malthus observed that an increase in a nation's food production improved the well-being of the population, but the improvement was temporary because it led to population growth, which in turn restored the original per capita production level. In other words, humans had a propensity to use abundance for population growth rather than for maintaining a high standard of living, a view and stance that has become known as the "Malthusian trap" or the "Malthusian spectre".”
What is the argument against this? Seems pretty sensible to me 🤔
