In localized, specific contexts, yes, "more people" is often best....BUT, for an overall, planet-wide population? As of 2025, I'd say we have somewhere between 1, and 4 or 5 billion useless eaters. Harsh truth, but also a reality that demands serious consideration....Those Georgia Guide Stones weren't intended ONLY to generate conspiracy-theories....
Thank-you, Peter. I'm re-using the phrase as dark, sardonic irony, to further my point.
We have way, way way too little Buckminster Fuller left in 2025....That's by design.
Bucky could envision 8 or 10 billion whole, healthy, happy people living well planet-wide. But not with the legacy cultures and politics we suffer with today.... Also, I've noted that I've heard NOTHING, in recent years, in the mass media, about "over-population", and the impending "population bomb"....just a curious observation....
What if the Globalists "DE-Population Agenda" really IS FACTS?....hmmm...
The fundamental problem is not the size of any national, or even global, human population. It is the absence of individual freedom manifested in the denial of private property rights, the lack of which results in the denial of all other legitimate individual rights, for it is by being secure in one's property that one is able to physically implement those other rights.
Bear in mind that the Earth is a huge, solid sphere of natural resources, the surfaces of which, both above and below water, we have barely scratched, even after 200 years since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. We have yet to harness and competently and safely direct all of the energy contained in every atom of every chemical element!
Yes, natural resources are metaphysically limited; but in relation to human beings, and our ability to discover, understand, and harness every part of them, they are practically limitless.
Individual freedom, guided by critical, reality-based reasoning, makes possible scientific exploration, study, and exploitation of natural resources to their fullest extent and most productive use, technological advancements, and freedom of production and trade, resulting in reduction of poverty and greater peace and prosperity.
The condition of being a "useless eater" is one that government operators have been responsible for encouraging with their tax-theft funded welfare schemes that have infantilized people by providing recipients with cradle-to-grave "security" at the price of their autonomy and liberty. The actual population, in any country, of individuals who are truly incapable of fending for themselves--those "useless eaters" as you refer to them--is relatively small, so private, voluntarily funded charity, in whatever forms it may take, would likely be adequate and efficiently provided--far more efficiently than government ever has, or could--to assist most of them (there will always be some who "fall through the cracks", cannot be found, refuse help, etc.), for people are inclined to be compassionate and generous once they are assured of being secure in their own person and property.
THANK-YOU, Edward! BTW, nobody "falls through the cracks". They're usually pushed, shoved, or thrown. Sometimes dropped, or allowed to fall. And the "cracks" are in fact a design feature of the system, not a "flaw"....
I think about the growth degrowth the way I think about abortion. The value of autonomy should reign supreme. Late term abortion is murder of sorts but sometimes necessary. Local communities should also have some control over growth and expansion. There won't be sufficient protection for autonomous communities if they aren't allowed to establish some limits to growth.
Humans, free to read.
https://open.substack.com/pub/abforbes/p/we-are-all-on-the-same-journey?r=yn8c0&utm_medium=ios
In localized, specific contexts, yes, "more people" is often best....BUT, for an overall, planet-wide population? As of 2025, I'd say we have somewhere between 1, and 4 or 5 billion useless eaters. Harsh truth, but also a reality that demands serious consideration....Those Georgia Guide Stones weren't intended ONLY to generate conspiracy-theories....
"useless eaters," I've heard that before but I'm not sure what to say about it...
Thank-you, Peter. I'm re-using the phrase as dark, sardonic irony, to further my point.
We have way, way way too little Buckminster Fuller left in 2025....That's by design.
Bucky could envision 8 or 10 billion whole, healthy, happy people living well planet-wide. But not with the legacy cultures and politics we suffer with today.... Also, I've noted that I've heard NOTHING, in recent years, in the mass media, about "over-population", and the impending "population bomb"....just a curious observation....
What if the Globalists "DE-Population Agenda" really IS FACTS?....hmmm...
The fundamental problem is not the size of any national, or even global, human population. It is the absence of individual freedom manifested in the denial of private property rights, the lack of which results in the denial of all other legitimate individual rights, for it is by being secure in one's property that one is able to physically implement those other rights.
Bear in mind that the Earth is a huge, solid sphere of natural resources, the surfaces of which, both above and below water, we have barely scratched, even after 200 years since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. We have yet to harness and competently and safely direct all of the energy contained in every atom of every chemical element!
Yes, natural resources are metaphysically limited; but in relation to human beings, and our ability to discover, understand, and harness every part of them, they are practically limitless.
Individual freedom, guided by critical, reality-based reasoning, makes possible scientific exploration, study, and exploitation of natural resources to their fullest extent and most productive use, technological advancements, and freedom of production and trade, resulting in reduction of poverty and greater peace and prosperity.
The condition of being a "useless eater" is one that government operators have been responsible for encouraging with their tax-theft funded welfare schemes that have infantilized people by providing recipients with cradle-to-grave "security" at the price of their autonomy and liberty. The actual population, in any country, of individuals who are truly incapable of fending for themselves--those "useless eaters" as you refer to them--is relatively small, so private, voluntarily funded charity, in whatever forms it may take, would likely be adequate and efficiently provided--far more efficiently than government ever has, or could--to assist most of them (there will always be some who "fall through the cracks", cannot be found, refuse help, etc.), for people are inclined to be compassionate and generous once they are assured of being secure in their own person and property.
THANK-YOU, Edward! BTW, nobody "falls through the cracks". They're usually pushed, shoved, or thrown. Sometimes dropped, or allowed to fall. And the "cracks" are in fact a design feature of the system, not a "flaw"....
I think about the growth degrowth the way I think about abortion. The value of autonomy should reign supreme. Late term abortion is murder of sorts but sometimes necessary. Local communities should also have some control over growth and expansion. There won't be sufficient protection for autonomous communities if they aren't allowed to establish some limits to growth.
People/the Earth have never run out of a resource.
There are more people alive now than ever before. That changes the view...