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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIf there was no birthcontrol,the Western world's population would easily be double what it is.
I wonder where we would get the resources to support these untold millions.
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If there was no birthcontrol,the Western world's population would easily be double what it is. (Original Post)
Swede
Feb 2012
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MANative
(4,112 posts)1. That's the point...
The idea is to actually create an underclass of "serfs and servants" who will work for the rich for the mere pittances that will barely sustain them until they die of disease or starvation. It won't matter, after all, because there will be an unending supply of new chattel to take the next shift. Only about 10% sarcastic, here.
Swede
(33,288 posts)2. Your reply also reminded me of the need for cannon fodder.
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MANative
(4,112 posts)3. That too....
Although only in the context that it would enrich the few at the expense of the many.
marybourg
(12,637 posts)4. A large percentage of which would
be Catholics, increasing the power of -- guess who -- the bishops!
jwirr
(39,215 posts)5. Especially in the USA where we have had good weather, fertile farmland and resources from the
beginning. Putting all of that together and we would have been reproducing at an alarming rate.