The notion of comparing "potential people" to "potential income" has the drawback of failing to consider the consequences, if that potential is not fulfilled. I think I don't need to remind anyone here what can happen if potential income doesn't become actualized, but it got spent anyway. Well, potential people will require associated potential food and other potential resources. You cannot always assume that they will become actualized, just as you cannot always assume that potential income will be actualized.
Easter Island proved that humans are not immune to a Malthusian Catastrophe.
I might mention that I have never owned a credit card, nor ever wanted to own one.
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Hey, Jerry, if you truly wish to advertise yourself as an "Evil Conservative", then perhaps you might consider this anti-abortion argument:
1. The Law of Supply and Demand always associates value with quantity.
2. Every economic system fails, when it fails to acknowledge the validity of the Law of Supply and Demand.
3. Many Conservatives run businesses that hire workers and sell goods.
4. It is obvious that the more people there are, the more competition there will be for both jobs and goods.
5. Per the Law of Supply and Demand, more people in an economic system will cause prices for goods to rise, and wages for labor to drop, due to that competition.
6. The businessperson profits, therefore, by opposing abortion, and thereby encouraging the population increase that leads to the competion that lowers wages and increases prices.
Have you noticed how many conservative businesspeople already oppose abortion? They may claim to be promoting human life, but what sort of life is that, when wages are puny and prices for everything are high? Well, if they (and you, Jerry) are Evil, and don't care about quality-of-life, except their own personal quality-of-life, then so what?
Historically, it used to be that one man's income could support a family. Nowadays it seems to take two people both working two jobs. The conclusion should be obvious, that the buying power of wages has dropped, relative to the prices of goods needed to support a family, in the decades of population-increase that have happened since that earlier era. These phenomena are all linked, and nicely fit the preceding explanation. And we can assume that Evil Conservatives want this to continue, for their own excessively selfish benefit. ("evil" can be defined as "excessively selfish")
