What a great idea. Robots should pay FICA.
Yes.
Overpopulation will contribute to eventual extinction. But such a policy does not need to be in effect until population numbers are unrecoverable. Nor would it likely be enforced or followed to that effect. All that is needed is a population decline to a stable limit.
But only white people in the rich world.
Good point in this sense: as education and economic development increase, people tend to have fewer children. And as knowledge about healthcare also improves, more kids survive. In Mexico years ago it was common and broke one’s heart to hear a mom or dad say, “tengo 8 hijos, 2 vivos,” I have 8 children, 2 living, referring to the six who died in childbirth or shortly thereafter.
He’s knocked up an Indian though.
If you're going to endorse this idea, at least do it without the euphemisms. Just say black people.
The fact that you would even call it that is quite telling. As though this was anything other than a calamitous failure in China.
No one is forcing you to have kids.
The Malthusians have been beating that drum for 200+ years, and they have never been right. But I'm sure that extinction is coming any time now.
The global fertility rate is already a quite stable 2.4 children per woman, just slightly above the replacement rate of 2.1 children per woman. It's already stable, or too low, in most countries. It's really only Sub-Saharan Africa and a few war-torn countries in Asia that have very high population growth. Meanwhile, much of Europe and East Asia have horrifyingly low fertility rates.
It's more polite than saying third world countries. It's a global version of poor people have too many kids. Of course he's not gonna admit the racist, eugenicist, and classist undertones of his BS line of thinking
Meanwhile, the global population is near 8 billion and continues to rise.
