No, he wasn't. Thanos was just recycling the same Malthusian crap that's been used by hundreds of years of politicians to justify forced sterilizations in America, famines in British India, and China's one-child policy.
https://twitter.com/mrcarton5478/status/1406831857195388932
Malthus has been proven wrong time and time again.
First of all, when societies face scarcity, families have *more* children because they need more capital to get the same resources. Fertility rates are negatively correlated with a country's level of development.
First of all, when societies face scarcity, families have *more* children because they need more capital to get the same resources. Fertility rates are negatively correlated with a country's level of development.
And second of all, the scarcities that cause these population pressures are a direct result of governments taking away people's power to act in their own interests.
If you look through history, you see a startling fact: famines do not occur in democracies. Ever.
If you look through history, you see a startling fact: famines do not occur in democracies. Ever.
Human populations are not mindless herds that need to be culled for the sake of a fixed supply of resources. They are complex, thinking societies that adapt to the resources they have.
Malthusian engineering causes the very mismanagement it claims to be addressing.
Malthusian engineering causes the very mismanagement it claims to be addressing.
I know this kind of sounds like a libertarian argument, but it isn't. I'm not saying all government action is bad, I'm saying anti-democratic action is bad. Malthusianism is the ultimate rejection of democracy. It's a rejection of the idea the people can govern themselves.
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