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Strategies & Market Trends : Booms, Busts, and Recoveries

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To: No Mo Mo who wrote (16099)	3/4/2002 5:32:37 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) of 74559

I haven't seen many mothers who wish they didn't have their cute little bambino. Fathers mostly like the little dears too. The little dears turn from mogwais into gremlins when it's too late to do anything about them. There's plenty of capacity for more people [for another few billions anyway] so I don't think most mothers are thinking of 'world capacity' in their decisions. They look at their personal circumstances and make their decision on those immediately surrounding them [mostly anyway]. There is some limit and in the absence of contraception, that limit was determined by the propensity to start fighting when certain territorial limits were reached and resources became scarce. The four horses of the apocalypse have kept humans under control for millennia. But now, there is effective contraception and reproduction has become a matter of female choice [with some male influence to be sure - no pay by a guy reduces female propensity to have babies]. The social structure of the world has dramatically changed over the last 100 years. Territorial conquest is out of date nearly everywhere. There is still the Palestine/Israel mess to sort out, which is old-fashioned alpha-male tribal territorial war. Plus plenty of other messes around the world. But they aren't world-scale "Greater Co-prosperity Sphere" type conflicts. The War on Terrorism is being watched for potential to turn into something more akin to Pax Americana writ large. Maybe a spot of habeas corpus in Camp Xray will be needed to ascertain just who the heck those people are. How do we know that they don't include a few 'settled score' type people who are nothing at all to do with the Taleban and Osama's mob? History is certainly not at an end [as claimed by some wacko not too many years ago]. The big issue is more civilization, not fewer people. Look how crowded Holland is. That's a very civilized pleasant place. Hong Kong is quite packed too, but it's good enough for the likes of Jay to go back to instead of hanging on in Trinidad. Tokyo and Japan are quite crowded but civilization makes it a good place to live. They aren't all leaving to move to New Zealand. They take a holiday here then want to get back to the Japanese way of life. Indian friends who can live anywhere decided to move back [from Belgium/USA] to Cochin in Kerala [southern India] and there are swarms of people there, but life is civilized and good. Mqurice

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