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Greg lund's avatar

Time to get all these subhuman cockroaches OUT.

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Ahnaf Ibn Qais's avatar

People want a High Consumption, 'Abundance Industrialism,' 'GDP line go up!' Lifestyle. You only get that via population growth, which Poland ( & others) no longer have.

The Fertility rates in Poland hover around 1.1-1.2 children per woman, with a Birth rate of 7.2/1000 & a Death rate of -10.9/1000. Crude Migration is actually negative (per 2023 numbers) at -0.33/1000 once you factor in Native Poles emigrating en masse courtesy of Economic Blight.

Adding everything up, you get a Per Annum rate of -4.03/1000, which is a -0.4% per year. No society can have a 'growth economy' with such paltry numbers, not possible.

Now, if people wanted Degrowth & Deindustrialization, they can move toward a Homogenous society which is more Agrarian in character. It will take a few decades, but by the time the population stabilites down by a few more million, it should be pretty doable.

The Problem is that people don't want this stuff. They elect all these Populist politicians who then promise to 'deport everyone!' .... only to never do it in any meaningful way.

This is not because 'they are betraying you!' but rather because as noted earlier... the Math doesn't work. There is no 'GDP line go up!' society without constant Population growth.

So Populism is dead (basically) even though they will all soon be elected across Europe. This is because Demography is Destiny, & Politics cannot solve an issue which at its core is Spiritual in nature, courtesy of the Lifetsyles people want & choose to live.

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