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23 Dec 2024 12:30 am
My position has always been overpopulation harms quality of life.Cannonpointer » 23 Dec 2024, 1:01 am » wrote: ↑ 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.
I have already made my case - and you've run from it, trying desperately to find SOME measure that you believe refutes my position. 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. We're talking less than a thousand square feet, with three bedrooms. The only thing in that house that was large was when our neighbor Mildred came to visit. Try to find a house like that today. 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. 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.
It's just silly to even compare the housing industry of 1970 to today's market. The entire ideasphere around home ownership has utterly altered. What you are doing with that silly and badly presented chart would be similar to me saying, in 1965 only this percentage of homes had air conditioning, and only in one room, at that. Now, because our population grew, EBBEBODY got em some air conditioning - in ebbey room! Hell, most have CENTRAL heat and air! Look what popalayshun done did!! Whoopie!!
Your position has always been that population growth creates increased wealth and I've shown you several different ways where that is false.
BTW..anyone who wishes to live in the small house you grew up in can still do so. Thanks to overpopulation ...I know of houses like yours that are going for close to a million bucks in California now.
If our population ever decreases enough to make a measurable difference, the roads will seem larger, parking spaces in the city will be easier to find, commute times will drop in half, the highways wont wear out nearly as fast, real estate values will drop, demand for apartments to be constructed in Rural America will grind to a halt. The need for toll roads will certainly go away.
Much uninhabited property will lay dormant and be snatched up for pennies by the owners of adjacent lots [which raises their standard of living].
We might even see a return of single bread winner households with less need for 2 incomes to keep up with what will be more abundant housing and a lower house payment.
There will be fewer people pumping water from our aquafers, less garbage generated, less pollution in the rivers, less poop to treat at the treatment plants.
None of our current technology shrinks though and people will actually have more time to themselves instead of wasting as much of their lives stuck in traffic