This is part of the reason borders are so important. These peoples’ populations would be naturally curbed if they were stuck in their homelands competing over less plentiful resources, but our leaders are using our labor to send them population-expanding food relief and then when their population expands they are shipping the runoff into our spaces where it continues to expand and consume and expand and consume at unsustainable rates. They are like a human version of an invasive species that our leaders have intentionally weaponized against us
And why? Well, we all know these people are easier to control. That is obvious. But they also require more “care” from the government which means more programs of the state must be created to manage them. And the more you cram together millions of people with nothing in common the more you can justify the need for draconian enforcement of “peace”. And in an idle society where everyone is forced to receive “care” from the state (muh abolish private insurance) people will inevitably compare the care they receive to the care that others receive. Some will rely on government care so totally and from the very inception of their sentient memory that they will assume everyone relies on government care and thus they will believe that whoever has more than them is receiving an unfair amount of care.
Finally, the more people you have the more transactions you may tax, the more care you must facilitate the more opportunities you have to skim a little off the top for your trouble, and (double whammy here) the larger a population gets the more money you take in every time you tax every citizen an extra dollar and the less accountable you can be for it since it’s not as if you’re stealing from your neighbor or your brother or a stranger seated next to you on the bus. You’re stealing, facelessly and through a convoluted paper trail, from a stranger hundreds of miles away. What are the odds someone will take the time to track down the person who stole a dollar from them and show up to their home with a torch and pitchfork?
What are the odds someone will take the time to track down the person who stole a dollar from them and show up to their home with a torch and pitchfork?
This is part of the reason borders are so important. These peoples’ populations would be naturally curbed if they were stuck in their homelands competing over less plentiful resources, but our leaders are using our labor to send them population-expanding food relief and then when their population expands they are shipping the runoff into our spaces where it continues to expand and consume and expand and consume at unsustainable rates. They are like a human version of an invasive species that our leaders have intentionally weaponized against us
And why? Well, we all know these people are easier to control. That is obvious. But they also require more “care” from the government which means more programs of the state must be created to manage them. And the more you cram together millions of people with nothing in common the more you can justify the need for draconian enforcement of “peace”. And in an idle society where everyone is forced to receive “care” from the state (muh abolish private insurance) people will inevitably compare the care they receive to the care that others receive. Some will rely on government care so totally and from the very inception of their sentient memory that they will assume everyone relies on government care and thus they will believe that whoever has more than them is receiving an unfair amount of care.
Finally, the more people you have the more transactions you may tax, the more care you must facilitate the more opportunities you have to skim a little off the top for your trouble, and (double whammy here) the larger a population gets the more money you take in every time you tax every citizen an extra dollar and the less accountable you can be for it since it’s not as if you’re stealing from your neighbor or your brother or a stranger seated next to you on the bus. You’re stealing, facelessly and through a convoluted paper trail, from a stranger hundreds of miles away. What are the odds someone will take the time to track down the person who stole a dollar from them and show up to their home with a torch and pitchfork?
Great observation, explained to the point!
I think the chances have improved over time...