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scenemaker03 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
I like to eat burrito's but that doesn't mean i want a north american union
tpstrat14 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
what the hell was his point? it sounded like an old man with alzheimer's forgetting what the hell he was talking about...
Rurne (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Malthus's doomsday famine has yet to come to pass. One word: industrialization. The entire principle was built upon the notion that labor-demand would remain static, while labor-supply would increase. In fact, industrialization created more work, so both ended up growing. He also assumed that greater wages would drive up birth rates, but North American birth rates are at replacement level, while countries like Japan are shrinking in population.
I'd take Malthus with a grain of salt.
Rurne (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Pretty much. The point is that nothing is as simple as stated here. In reality, the only application you'd find for the exponential function is in calculating the marginal cost of production with any good... and that's not accounting for externalities or diseconomies of scale.
It's easy to say "What if growth continues uninhibited?", but that's being completely oblivious to break-even analysis. Economics is best left to guys like Joseph Stiglitz. Less sensational, but more accurate.
Bozeman42 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Because you'd find that growth with finite resources is not infinitely sustainable?
neofeliciano (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
read about Thomas Robert Malthus he predicted overpopulation centuries ago. this person is like the architect from the matrix, there is a lot more to the story than it seems. these people are the baddies and you are worth nothing to them your just a number. time to take the red pill or the blue. the rabbit hole is goes waaaay down if I were you I'd stick with the blue pill since there is no solution yet,enjoy your virtual malthusian beef steak the real one tastes nasty.
DFORCE1969 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
A wise old man who is alerting the public to what Western Govnts concluded years ago;
However their solution to overpopulation involves warfare,disease & mas starvation for the third world.
observant09 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
this guy was the model for The Architect
kennboy1 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
unfortanly, yes. The federal reserve is indeed corrupt, most of the u.s. decisions is based on greed, and the banks have a hand in it. Search up zeigeist addundium, keep in mind that if you want to believe this or not is up to you.
PhoenixAnigma (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
At first I was going to skip it cause it seemed boring...but I gave it a chance, and i was facsinated! I myself have never learned that and I am in high school. I wouldn't have thought that this was taught in elementary school like some people said |
