If you tripled the population of the United States, it would still be only about as dense as France.
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: Is this article from 20 years ago?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
If you tripled the population of Russia, it would still be less dense than the United States. If you tripled the population of France, it would still only be about as dense as Belgium. If you tripled the population of Belgium, it would still only be about as dense as Bangladesh and if you tripled the population of Bangladesh it wouldn't be half as dense as Hong Kong or a tenth as dense as Singapore but nobody's written a book about that for some reason.
Where would you get all those extra people? The whole idea is absurd. You would end up with 1/3 and 1/6 eventually of the population with American values and instead you would get new India, new Pakistan and new Africa, new se Asia all rolled into pockets of one country what could go wrong.