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Yes yes, more people means more progress which means line goes up which means we will all live in a utopia or something like that. That's why everyone is trying to escape their country and conduct a huge trek to reach countries like uhh India, China and so on and so forth.

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> more people means more progress

Is that really the case? Isn't it more a matter of experience that some countries or even continents show impressive population growth and at the same time are pretty resistant to progress? Isn't it rather the case that even in the so-called developed countries only a small part of the population is responsible for technological progress? And do the exceptional geniuses (such as Einstein), to whom we owe a considerable part of progress, really come from areas with larger populations?

You clearly missed the parents sarcasm

How do you know it's sarcasm?

using intentionally reductive and simplistic reasoning, like " line goes up ", "which means we will all live in a utopia" as well as taking modern events and changing the details to make a ridiculous position "conduct a huge trek to reach countries like uhh India, China and so on and so forth" (people are in fact not in huge numbers immigrating to those countries, instead are going to the west)

Sounds plausible; but it could also simply be a young, enthusiastic person who doesn't know all the (correct) facts, as is often seen in the media in recent times. I also suspect that the text has changed since I wrote my answer; I remember the original post differently.

no, I am quite certain. If you're having genuine trouble here, it may point to you not having a very well formed theory of what those people actually think.

I have no theory at all and am increasingly puzzled by what is happening.

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