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Unpopular on lemmy or irl? Because I have plenty for lemmy
how about both?
Irl, I don't think infinite economic growth is reasonable, feasible, or practical. There's only so much land, only so much space in the world. Once we leave Earth, that changes, but not until then.
We should stop developing new plots of land and start building up. If a plot of land is already developed, it's fair game. But no new plots of land.
I'm tired of seeing every empty field and forest getting bulldozed, although that's not unpopular.
On Lemmy, I think illegal immigrants should be deported as a default. If they commit serious crimes, sure, jail them. But the vast majority should just get deported. And claiming asylum when you get caught is abusing the asylum system and ruining it for people who actually need it.
We should also heavily reduce the amount of legal immigrants too. We take in a fifth of the world's immigrants, and we do not have a fifth of the world's population. Immigration doesn't really help the common man, it's used to suppress wages. It's a kind of a selfish thing, because more immigrants means less fields and woods, but immigration isn't helping anyone but the rich either.
Abolish the ATF and the NFA. People have the right to defend themselves regardless of what the government says.
Protective tariffs like the Chicken Tax are good for domestic industry. This is a feature not a bug. I was thinking this long before Trump got in.
As a liberal i feel I need to step in and defend endless economic growth. Its not tied to resources as they're only one way an economy can grow. Economic growth can be 2 people buying digital art from each other.
Majority of the companies are nowhere near being resource capped. From their point of view the only thing for then to do is to keep doing more of what they do best. The problem and reason why endless growth gets a bad rep is that consumers are super apathetic and governments do a terrible job of regulating. So companies exploit consumer apathy and "eat" smaller companies with illegal practices.