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Re:Senator To Microsoft: What Was That You Said About Wantin... by mynameishere on Monday January 26, 2009 @05:24PM (#451183)
This is a tiresome argument, but more people = viewer resources per person. And, if history is a guide, different people = political squabbling, and sometimes political disaster.
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Re:Senator To Microsoft: What Was That You Said About Wantin... by davidw on Tuesday January 27, 2009 @09:07AM (#452102)
> more people = fewer resources per person.

The US could support a far higher number of people with the resources it has. This is just more incorrect zero sum thinking. Which is why, by and large, the population of the planet now is better off or at least as well off as it was 2000 years ago, when there were vastly fewer people.

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