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It is quite a "spiritual" failure of the Soviet experiment that they did not come up with other aspirations. The egalitarianism was decent, though apparently not valued by the citizen - consumer materialism was somehow the highest value there as well.

But overpopulation problems could be overrated - and women emancipation is indeed a good factor. The West was never (objectively) close to overpopulation drama. Growing cities and population density only meant higher production and generally better life quality. People were suffering not because of lack of potatoes or something.

by das monde on Wed Apr 21st, 2010 at 07:20:14 AM EST
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The question isn't so much how many people we can fit on the planet as it is how comfortable they will be.

- Jake

If you only spend 20 minutes of the rest of your life on economics, go spend them here.

by JakeS (JangoSierra 'at' gmail 'dot' com) on Wed Apr 21st, 2010 at 12:05:05 PM EST
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The comfort is arguably still increasing. When do you want to short the comfort growth? :-)
by das monde on Wed Apr 21st, 2010 at 10:34:59 PM EST
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Alive and healthy CAN BE comfortable.

We haven't been trained to it yet.

Women don't naturally want unlimited children.

ACCESS to children, maybe. The village provides.

Hilary Clinton was right.

Align culture with our nature.

by ormondotvos (ormond no spam lmi net no spam) on Thu Apr 22nd, 2010 at 06:46:21 PM EST
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