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CrazyEyeJoe  ·  1509 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Case for Adding 672 Million More Americans

Yeah, but why? Just to have a greater GDP than China? The idea of intentionally tripling the population is obviously absurd, as the entire country's infrastructure would have to fundamentally change, but I will admit that I think he has a small point in saying that there's no reason to have such ridiculous limits on immigration as there are now. It's almost impossible to permanently emigrate to the US.

I stopped reading once I reached the following:

    But one advantage the U.S. does have over China is that because it is a beacon of freedom to the world, rather than an increasingly dystopian oligarchy

Is this article from 20 years ago?