COVID-19, Declining Birth Rates and International Migration Resulted in Historically Small Population Gains

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Let me guess, Japan?

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Or anywhere in Europe basically

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How is the US going to achieve Matty Iglesias’ one billion Americans moonshot like this? Shame on you guys.

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Was that ever an actual thing or just a meme?

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Matt Iglesias wrote the One Billion Americans book, but the core thesis is less about population growth and more about how Matty’s personal brand of YIMBY liberalism can save us all from the Chinese hordes.

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That depends on whether or not you consider Matty an actual person or a living meme, because he actually wrote a book on that.

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Invading Mexico or some shit I guess

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Ah yes the take that somehow bested “we need to end lockdown so I can go to church in person if you disagree you are a Nazi” from that libertarian asshole for worst take of 2019

It’s frankly amazing that the asshole neolib tech brain dialogue has reached the two extremes of “end birthrates for climate” and “we need a million people so one of them is smart enough to beat climate but also China”

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one billion Americans

the best argument against veganism

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2022 is the year we flip that to a negative. We can make it happen if we focus our energies hard enough!

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Do your part! Climb back into the womb!

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Lol i was just thinking about this

Would they even tell us? I’m kinda skeptical of the whole .1% growth rate. Sounds to me like it was negative but they ofc won’t say that because people and more importantly markets would freak out

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yeah this is probably at most like a best guesstimate. population tracking is rly rly hard, esp in such a large country

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Volcel police!

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yeah these mba fucks constantly stress worker productivity (aka do the job of five people) and now their chickens are coming home to roost bc the county is gonna disappear

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I love my kids to death and I’m glad I have them, but yeah if you value having some free time kids basically eat up all that.

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Not to mention the whole 🔥🌏🔥 thing.

I’m not bringing life into this world to leave it to roast on a dying planet.

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Why would anyone be excited about having kids in this country right now?

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Abusive partners are probably happy about quarantine

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Yeah, there was a lot of talk about stuff like that at the start of the pandemic

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Idk might be cool to see my daughter drink the blood of her enemies and listen to the lamentations of their femboys. George floyd protests kinda made me want one. Coulda been my zoomer out there raising hell

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