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*GHETTOBLASTER » 23 Dec 2024, 12:33 am » wrote: ↑

23 Dec 2024, 12:33 am

WRONG...you first looked at the chart and thought it showed an increase in home ownership percentage.
Even though our population increased by 50% during that 30 year time period, home ownership percentage remained unchanged..which blows your theory [that population increase creates wealth] to smithereens     
 

The last time you thought you blew my position - which you continue to misrepresent - to smithereens was when you made a claim that your own chart has now debunked. 

My position has merely - and always - been that your claim about population growth threatening wealth is absolute ****. If and when you can show a single country whose population grew AND their poverty grew,  you'll at least be actually responding to my critique of your sky-is-falling globalist claptrap. 

I grew up in the 60s in a three bedroom, one bath house with a tiny kitchen and a swamp cooler. Mom, dad, and five kids in less than a thousand square feet. Every room was tiny. The entire housing INDUSTRY has utterly transformed in the past fifty years. Now, everyone has to have a two car garage and a bonus room in their mcmansion. Every kid needs their own bedroom - with at LEAST a shared jack-and-jill bathroom, if not their own bathroom. Everyone has been gaslighted to see their home as an investment, so the more you put in, the more you'll get out. Always buy more home than you need, because housing always goes up and as long as you can afford the mortgage, you can profit bigger when you sell your too-big-for-your-actual-needs house. 

In 1955, global extreme poverty was at 55%. Today, it's at 8.5%. That's orders of magnitude - downright miraculous. 

To save your thesis, you need to explain WHY global poverty has tanked, ascribing it to something other than population growth. You need to make the argument that poverty declined in SPITE of population growth. And you need to stop looking at **** like one nation's housing (especially when your example is proved false by your own chart in your next post). Home ownership in the United States has NOTHING TO DO with extreme global poverty. 

You keep acting like I have a thesis to defend - like I need to PROVE that the more people a country gets, the richer it becomes. I don't. I never made that claim. Radically curtailing extreme global poverty =/= everyone getting rich.

You are the one with a thesis to defend. You made the claim that population growth is making everyone poorer. I proved that extreme poverty has RADICALLY fallen while populations exploded - which kinda **** on your thesis. Talking about home ownership in America is not gonna rescue it. Explaining away the enormous drop in global extreme poverty, and making a case that population surges have slowed, rather than contributed to, the drop in poverty - THAT is what defending your thesis looks like. 

I cannot make your argument for you. And it appears that neither can you...