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One billion Americans, he suggests, would more rapidly discover technologies to “make prosperous lifestyles sustainable,” which in turn would render “irrelevant” the sheer number of prosperous Americans.

The following sentence is also a doozy. He has taken the Pinker Pill.

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I’ve had someone use this kind of argument to reconcile them having children and the global ecological collapse. “More people means there’s a chance of one of those additional people inventing a technological solution to all our problems.”

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Oh Jesus Christ is this the next phase of futurism BS? “Ok ok so we didn’t make a sci fi Story magic solution to the problem. But what if there were MORE PEOPLE to try to make these magic solutions?”

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Technocrat wonkery and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.

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Doesn’t technocracy imply that people who make the decisions are at least a little bit competent?

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if we can terraform Pluto, then climate change is hardly an issue

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One Billion Plutonians.

My argument for jettisoning MattY into space.

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It’s amazing that libs have managed atrocious takes from both ends of the spectrum from Bill “I’m obsessed with the reproductive habits of African women and trying to do a light genocide by giving everyone both control” Gates to Matt “Americans need to start pumping out children because yellow scare and I can’t do simple math” Yglesias.

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trying to do a light genocide by giving everyone both control

Is birth control genocide, now?

Gates distributed condoms and Plan B pills. He didn’t kidnap people and rip out their reproductive organs, like they’re doing out in Georgia.

Let’s at least try to keep perspective.

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there’s a real issue of a super-wealthy person imposing western conceptions about how many children a family should have

Gates’s experiment in distributing birth control was a colossal failure, just as previous “please don’t fuck” initiatives by authoritarians have been failures.

But what came out of it was genuinely good. Gates discovered that high birth rates correlated with high childhood fatality rates. And that by distributing vaccinations first, and birth control later, families would naturally aim for the replacement rate without any further outside intervention.

Gates’s experience on the African coast is a valuable lesson and a strong argument for universal health care as national policy.

pushing the idea that it’s somehow population and not the conditions created by capitalism that impoverishes nations

Poverty predates capitalism by millenia. And while China/India illustrate why pure population has nothing to do with poverty, human health plays a substantial role. Gates’s distribution of vaccines and other medical resources was beneficial to the residents lucky enough to receive it. Nationalizing and expanding the scope of his campaign would be a huge boon for the continent as a whole, and it would be a shame if leftists lost sight of that.

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“Well, you see, my political views are actually completely detached from reality.”

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