• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      Believe it or not, Earth’s population is not ∞ and most of the people who live in places other than the U.S. don’t plan to come to the U.S.

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        4 months ago

        It is endless enough for us. We literally need to put up walls and barbed wire to keep people out.

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      4 months ago

      It’s not endless. Birth rate is declining everywhere and standards of living are generally rising, meaning fewer people with incentive to uproot their lives for another place they’ll be treated as criminals. That flow could easily stop and any interruption switches us instantly from growth to serious shrinkage