![]() ![]() ![]() It would require more immigrants and more programs to support people who want to have additional children. “By contrast, tripling the nation’s population to match the rising Asian powers is something that is in our power to achieve. And even if we could, it would be hideously immoral to pursue it. ![]() It’s not an outcome we have it within our power to guarantee. But it would be unfortunate for hundreds of millions of people to be consigned to poverty forever. Maybe they’ll just stumble and fail, in which case we will stay number one. “It is beyond dispute that there are fewer American people than there are Chinese or Indian people, as is the fact that China and India are trying to become less poor and seem to be succeeding. For America to stay great, become greater, it must have more people, argues Matthew Yglesias in One Billion Americans. While public policy wonks in India are concerned about how to manage the future of 1.4 billion people, a counter-intuitive set of questions are emerging from another part of the world. ![]()
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