He has spoken of unemployment and poverty as caused by our “excess population.” He has even asserted that Naxalism is caused by population pressures.
He is dead wrong – but it is funny to see a “democratically elected” politician hold views that his constituents are a “problem”; further, that their children are a problem; and, going even further, that the birth of their grandchildren should be postponed. For the Common Good, of course.
It takes three words to prove that population is a resource:
Cities Are Rich.
Yes, vacant villages are poor. And villages prosper when more and more outsiders buy land there and settle down. Note that more and more villagers are migrating to cities: they prefer locations where population is high. Thus, we need an urban vision: 500 great cities and 5000 towns. Many along the coast. There is much vacant land there. New urban property would be cheap.
Yes, we need to think of Reality – the Fact that Cities are rich. The Fact that villagers are moving to cities. The Fact that all our urban areas are unlivable. We have just 5 cities; the USA has over 200. Hong Kong and Singapore have huge population densities – and no one is complaining. No one there wants to return to village life.
So if population is a resource, what is the problem?
The real problem is our The State. It causes poverty via inflationism. It perpetuates poverty by swearing under oath that it will never build roads. It aggravates poverty through economic restrictionism, including direct predation. It is a State that practices Economic Repression. This The State is The Problem – not the people.
My advice to India’s youth: Do everything early. Drop out of “education” and enter The Market early. Earn your keep early. Marry early. Have your children and grandchildren early. Retire early. Enjoy a long and happy life with lots and lots of children and grandchildren. Actually, why not great grandchildren too? If you marry late, you’ll never get that far.
Think!
It’s Your Life.
Recommended reading: My essay “Population causes prosperity.” To download pdf file, click here.
"We have just 5 cities, the USA has over 200".
ReplyDeleteWhat are you talking about?
India has 42 cities with populations over one million, USA has 9.
thanks for that. just shows we need to build smaller cities, and manage their affairs well. but a chilling statistic i read said that 62.5 per cent of India's urban population was concentrated in the 5 metros. I also read some statistics on urbanization in Gujarat that said Tier III, Tier IV and Tier V towns were losing population to the big cities.
ReplyDeleteAll this has much to do with roads and transport. Without sound physical connectivity, satellite towns cannot function.
They say that "every great city sits like a giant spider on its transportation network." Ours sit like blobs of jelly on the map.
Who said that US has only 9 cities. If you count the smaller cities there are a lot of them. For example - Schaumburg, IL is a city which is a suburb of Chicago.
ReplyDeleteBangalore is supposed to be a modern city in India. Started growing in it's size only at the end of the 20th century. Built by these dhotiwalas (rather lungiwalas) after almost half a century of Independence, doesn't even have proper drainage and virtually no sidewalks (except the M.G.Road area, which was built by the Brits) and leave alone roads. Pathetic state of affairs.
ReplyDeleteIf this is what counts 1 out of 42 'cities' as cited in the above comments, I pity the standard of Indians who are proud with these statistics that India has more cities than US.
The importance of planning and developing a city has never occurred to these dhotiwalas. What they have given us instead, is Planned Destruction by diverting all public funds in private goods for more than 60 years.
I agree Debanjan. Most of the cities in the US are heaven to stay in and there a lot of heavens to choose from.
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