Malthusian economic logic is restricted to agriculture production by limited by a fixed arable space...and that increase worker population cannot increase the fixed arable space. Malthusian logic does not include (1) manufacturing augmenting the economy. (2) reclaimation of deserts to create more arable lands see China green great wall project, isreali farming technics, (3) increase crop yield via new crops and fertilizers...aka GMO (4) increase fishing production by fish farms (5) increase crop yields by hydroponics ... all of this is post 1800 developments that have allowed for an increased world human population
We can also apply current revelations to bolster Malthus’s arguments: all of these things, while great improvements over pre-Industrial agricultural output, are limited in their ability to exceed previous increases in yield every year. Eventually the marginal utility line of industrial farming techniques are crossed, and then the only thing we will have succeeded in doing is providing an equally great increase in population to the incoming massive decrease in population. This limit will most likely take the form of increasing scarcity of fossil fuel agriculture products like fertilizer and pesticides, proving Malthus’s theory correct in the long term, not medium or short term
Yes you all are correct, Malthus failed to acknowledge the impact of productivity improvements on expanding the ability for the economy to accomodate an increased population without living standards falling back to poverty again. But this does not mean that as with land and productivity there are not limits to the ability to exploit this. The same way there is a limit to land is how there is a limit to productivity and every thing else in this world. Thomas Malthus was partially correct, Productivity increases can only push the ball forward but sooner or later when productivity improvements has been exhausted and no other opportunities exist, the world will always fall into the Malthusian Trap.
If dumb people continue to out breed smart people, then it's obvious what will happen. We should have humane Eugenics. Estimates show by the end of this century, the average IQ will be 85. Very scary.
Call him what you like, it's all subjective. His reasoning, however, is rock solid. If you disagree with his view of the world that's not enough to disprove his theory
Malthusian economic logic is restricted to agriculture production by limited by a fixed arable space...and that increase worker population cannot increase the fixed arable space. Malthusian logic does not include (1) manufacturing augmenting the economy. (2) reclaimation of deserts to create more arable lands see China green great wall project, isreali farming technics, (3) increase crop yield via new crops and fertilizers...aka GMO (4) increase fishing production by fish farms (5) increase crop yields by hydroponics ... all of this is post 1800 developments that have allowed for an increased world human population
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We can also apply current revelations to bolster Malthus’s arguments: all of these things, while great improvements over pre-Industrial agricultural output, are limited in their ability to exceed previous increases in yield every year. Eventually the marginal utility line of industrial farming techniques are crossed, and then the only thing we will have succeeded in doing is providing an equally great increase in population to the incoming massive decrease in population. This limit will most likely take the form of increasing scarcity of fossil fuel agriculture products like fertilizer and pesticides, proving Malthus’s theory correct in the long term, not medium or short term
@@link6891 the human population of earth is set to decline way before you run into a situation were people start running out of land
@@kylehankins5988 yes, because they run out of other things.
I 100% agree but all the 1-5 points were facilitated by the Industrial Revolution and the rise of Capital Markets
Yes you all are correct, Malthus failed to acknowledge the impact of productivity improvements on expanding the ability for the economy to accomodate an increased population without living standards falling back to poverty again. But this does not mean that as with land and productivity there are not limits to the ability to exploit this. The same way there is a limit to land is how there is a limit to productivity and every thing else in this world. Thomas Malthus was partially correct, Productivity increases can only push the ball forward but sooner or later when productivity improvements has been exhausted and no other opportunities exist, the world will always fall into the Malthusian Trap.
A Xian fanatic who hated the poor and loved eugenics. What could go wrong?
If dumb people continue to out breed smart people, then it's obvious what will happen. We should have humane Eugenics. Estimates show by the end of this century, the average IQ will be 85. Very scary.
Call him what you like, it's all subjective. His reasoning, however, is rock solid. If you disagree with his view of the world that's not enough to disprove his theory
We should be imprisoning breeders, not rewarding them.
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