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Originally Posted by Gerrit Coetzee
Thank you.
Wonder if the german gal knows what happens when you mix poop with ice cream? It destroys the ice cream and does nothing for the poop.
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Depends on your taste, the political elite apparently prefers poo and quick
money.
Letting more people in, especially of folks with higher fertility rate, presents you two dead ends. Either you leave them at a miserable
income level that their
consumption and ecological footprint remains fairly low (still several times larger than in Africa/Asia). This is the
current "strategy", leading to all kind of social problems. OR, spending trillions, you
lift at least the majority to middle-class levels (a policy many native citizens would need too!) then the first thing they'll do is to buy a diesel-burning pickup. All the 6-8kids in the second generation, then the 3-4 in the third scrap those for
lithium electric, responsible for ecological havoc currently in Congo and Bolivia.
Lifting living standards of 2/3rd of the world population belongs to rainbow unicorn category especially that the "usual cash cow", the middle class of the developed world is disappearing. Besides it's not just a simple maths operation where the subtracted wealth ends up 100% on the beneficiary's side. Taking hard earned 1000€ from me will limit my possibilities to e.g. invest
solar panels on my roof and allow an Eritrean
family to buy
food for 10x more than they'd in their home country. But that's far too little for them to learn a European language and a profession even if they're willing!