America Would Be More Happy with More People

bloomberg.com

4 points·binarynate··5 comments

I'm not sure I agree that slow US population growth is as big of a concern as Tyler argues, so I posted the article here to see others' comments / thoughts.

In the short term, the extraordinarily slow growth seems to be largely due to the pandemic, which seems reasonable. In the long term, if growth were to remain similarly slow, then I would be concerned.

Until you have robots to pick those crops, flip those beyond burgers, brew that latte and do sheetrock, you might want to keep those borders open.

Paywall: can’t read. But that never stops us from speculating based on the title/thesis.

The USA is lucky (and all the Americas are lucky) in that we have more wiggle-room in guessing what the best population growth rate should be. Nobody is going to starve in the US (for many decades at least) if we guess wrong. China/India/Africa on the other hand…

Bloomberg has a NYC bias and the business plan for NYC has always been import unwashed masses, exploit them mercilessly but provide the resources/opportunities for their children to have a better life in the US. Immigration shuts down, and NYC becomes a pretty sickly shark. That should be noted…

You need someone to make and deliver all that food to 731 Lexington, after all.

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