the worst part of their arguments is that there's no reason to think we need this high of a population to be as well-off as the western is (for now). if 20% of people truly do 80% of the work, that implies 80% of the entire workforce is largely fucking useless and could be done away with without a drop in productivity. same goes for unemployed people, they could all fuck off and die, and it would only be a net positive. as long as the right people were dying, the population of every western nation could halve with no problems to personal wealth.
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