For over 300,000 years, the human species was in the thousands to millions

Human populations didn’t hit the 1 billion mark until the early 1800’s.

A massive reduction in human population would be a very good thing for the sustainable future of the planet and for our species. Pronatalist is just another word for oligarch. These are people who lament the demise of cheap, exploitable labor.

India has a population of 1.42 Billion. The average per capita annual income is $2,400. India accounts for 40% of the world’s poverty rate. The argument that increased population increases wealth equality falls apart immediately upon very superficial inspection.

It’s a supply and demand economy problem. Oligarchs demand cheap labor. India is a supply of cheap labor because they have so many people.

Oligarchs lament a decreasing population because it means they have less control over labor costs. If you’ve got billions of human beings all fighting for a factory job? Then it drives the wage down. But what happens when there are more jobs than people looking to work them? Wages are forced to go up.

Men like Elon Musk, Peter Theil, Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping and others are aghast that workers would have the audacity to take that control back, by exercising their freedom to abstain from having children.