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Would that really be a bad thing?
I mean, we're all raging at this presidential administration for ending USAID which supplied food and medicine to developing nations and poverty-stricken regions without infrastructure, it will lead to the deaths of millions, for no other reason than they don't have access and resources in many of the places the program served.
if populations collapse in too many industrialized nations too rapidly, many industries and shipping lanes and distribution channels will start to slow down and possibly even eventually close entirely, leading to much greater problems than even the absence of USAID or other programs. A lot of our modern infrastructure we depend on functions on a scale dependent on a certain level of production and labor.
A lowered population would absolutely help us with a lot of issues with scarcity and pollution, but we can't get to those lowered population levels rapidly or that's the same as any other apocalyptic event that will cause vast amounts of suffering.
Nah you're missing the bigger picture. Sure, millions of people will die, but thousands of orphan children will have the opportunity to be forced to become sex slaves for Trump. That's way more profitable than giving away free medicine.