Jack (02-21-2020)
I'm sure there are exceptions, but I'm just talking about generalities here. When we have "diversity," most political issues end up having a racial factor. Race and racism becomes a factor in things that shouldn't have anything to do with race, which makes it much harder to bring society to the Left.
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Jack (02-21-2020)
1. Me personally, 'Jack'. I oppose any more immigration because we aren't going to have enough Jobs in the Future for the people who are here NOW.
2. Andrew Yang proposes a 'Freedom Dividend' which is a 'Universal Basic Income'. The UBI will have to be implemented at some point. Why have ADDITIONAL people to send a UBI to?
3. The 'Prevailing View' ... is that we need more 'Breeders' to keep an EXPANDING population that can support the increasingly AGING population.
4. YOUR view may have had some traction at the turn of the century, not THIS century, the last century (1900).
5. I realize I am in the minority here. Capitalism ... relies on an increasing supply of Consumers. So, no one is arguing for 'less Consumers'.
6. My fear, and my prediction, is that we will kill ourselves with an overpopulated Planet.
"The carrying capacity of a biological species in an environment is the maximum population size of the species that the environment can sustain indefinitely, given the food, habitat, water, and other necessities available in the environment. In population biology, carrying capacity is defined as the environment's maximal load,[1] which is different from the concept of population equilibrium. Its effect on population dynamics may be approximated in a logistic model, although this simplification ignores the possibility of overshoot which real systems may exhibit."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrying_capacity
Jack (02-22-2020)
"Slave trade
In the 1680s the Company was transporting about 5,000 slaves a year to markets primarily in the Caribbean across the Atlantic. Many were branded with the letters "DY", for its Governor, the Duke of York, who succeeded his brother on the throne in 1685, becoming King James II. Other slaves were branded with the company's initials, RAC, on their chests.[9] Historian William Pettigrew has stated that this company “shipped more enslaved African women, men and children to the Americas than any other single institution during the entire period of the transatlantic slave trade.” and that investors in the company were fully aware of its activities and intended to profit from this exploitation.[10]"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_African_Company
According to the Ship's Log ... a Captain Penderyn was in charge.
Now, I didn't want to jump to conclusions, so I discussed this with Havana Moon.
He said it was DEFINITELY you.
I don't believe in your captain Penderyn - we don't have surnames based on places. I know all about slavery, but, fair play, selling slaves was not an action by any British State. Scumbags were answering the demand of scumbags. The UK government did stop it finally too. And I assure you that no-one with any relation to me had anything to do with it, ever.
Last edited by Iolo/Penderyn; 02-24-2020 at 06:34 AM.
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Jack (02-22-2020)
1. More immigrants create more jobs, specifically when those immigrants are high-skilled. We should close the borders to third world immigrants, but not immigrants from first world countries, and we should favor white immigrants like we used to.
2. Because the amount of money in circulation could always be adjusted to reflect the population. However, in today's global economy, that probably wouldn't even be needed.
3. We don't need to expand the population, but right now so few people are having kids that the population is shrinking. Even if we're going to take race out of the question, we either need more breeding or more immigration.
4. But the birthrates are still dropping, especially among white people.
5. Nobody is arguing for that, but that is what's happening.
6. I hear ya, Thanos. But we also need to keep our population at replacement levels.
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