On Di 24 M„r 2026 at 20:32, Lawrence D?Oliveiro wrote:

On Tue, 24 Mar 2026 17:48:59 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote:

Yet another argument against population growth...

A country with a low birth rate ends up being full of old people.
That?s not a happy place to be.

Only until they die.

'Andreas

--
ceterum censeo redmondinem esse delendam

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On Tue, 31 Mar 2026 19:53:41 +0200, Andreas Eder wrote:

On Di 24 M„r 2026 at 20:32, Lawrence D?Oliveiro wrote:

On Tue, 24 Mar 2026 17:48:59 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote:

Yet another argument against population growth...

A country with a low birth rate ends up being full of old people.
That?s not a happy place to be.

Only until they die.

Somebody has to look after them until then. The burden falls on the ever-diminishing proportion of able-bodied people of working age.

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On 2026-03-31, Lawrence D?Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

On Tue, 31 Mar 2026 19:53:41 +0200, Andreas Eder wrote:

On Di 24 M„r 2026 at 20:32, Lawrence D?Oliveiro wrote:

On Tue, 24 Mar 2026 17:48:59 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote:

Yet another argument against population growth...

A country with a low birth rate ends up being full of old people.
That?s not a happy place to be.

Only until they die.

Somebody has to look after them until then. The burden falls on the ever-diminishing proportion of able-bodied people of working age.

Yup. And then those people age. Later, rinse, repeat.

--
/~\ Charlie Gibbs | Growth for the sake of
\ / <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> | growth is the ideology
X I'm really at ac.dekanfrus | of the cancer cell.
/ \ if you read it the right way. | -- Edward Abbey

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On 2026-03-31, Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> wrote:

On 2026-03-31, Lawrence D?Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

On Tue, 31 Mar 2026 19:53:41 +0200, Andreas Eder wrote:

On Di 24 M„r 2026 at 20:32, Lawrence D?Oliveiro wrote:

On Tue, 24 Mar 2026 17:48:59 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote:

Yet another argument against population growth...

A country with a low birth rate ends up being full of old people.
That?s not a happy place to be.

Only until they die.

Somebody has to look after them until then. The burden falls on the
ever-diminishing proportion of able-bodied people of working age.

Yup. And then those people age. Later, rinse, repeat.

Oops... ^^^^^^
Lather

And if you do succeed in pumping up the population, you have
more people to worry about each time around the cosmic wheel.

--
/~\ Charlie Gibbs | Growth for the sake of
\ / <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> | growth is the ideology
X I'm really at ac.dekanfrus | of the cancer cell.
/ \ if you read it the right way. | -- Edward Abbey

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On Tue, 31 Mar 2026 22:07:34 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote:

And if you do succeed in pumping up the population, you have more
people to worry about each time around the cosmic wheel.

What?s our most valuable resource?

People.

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On 2026-03-31, Lawrence D?Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

On Tue, 31 Mar 2026 22:07:34 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote:

And if you do succeed in pumping up the population, you have more
people to worry about each time around the cosmic wheel.

What?s our most valuable resource?

People.

Remember that when you get hungry.

--
/~\ Charlie Gibbs | Growth for the sake of
\ / <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> | growth is the ideology
X I'm really at ac.dekanfrus | of the cancer cell.
/ \ if you read it the right way. | -- Edward Abbey

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On Tue, 31 Mar 2026 23:57:49 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote:

On 2026-03-31, Lawrence D?Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

On Tue, 31 Mar 2026 22:07:34 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote:

And if you do succeed in pumping up the population, you have more
people to worry about each time around the cosmic wheel.

What?s our most valuable resource?

People.

Remember that when you get hungry.

Who?s going to plant and harvest the food?

People.

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On Wed, 1 Apr 2026 01:26:10 -0000 (UTC)
Lawrence D?Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

Remember that when you get hungry.

Who?s going to plant and harvest the food?

Every passing year I'm more and more in favor of letting another
species have a go, TBH. Somebody get the Almighty in here with a
vaudeville hook...


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On 2026-03-27, Kerr-Mudd, John wrote:

On Thu, 26 Mar 2026 23:31:21 +0000
Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> wrote:

[...]

PDFTAI

(I was trying to do the opposite with that post, but it seems that,
while it did work for a time, that ship has sailed now...)

--
Nuno Silva
(cf. msgid)

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