Human Quantitative Easing
Substituting High-Quality Families for the Lowest Common Denominator
I once planned to write a book titled, Deurbanize the World, but when I pitched the idea to Kickstarter, it was taken down for offensive speech. Apparently, my ideas on urbanism are tied to anti-socialist policies.
The Western world, today, is extremely urbanized. In Germany, over 77% of the population live in an urbanized zone, and just under 15% live in a town with fewer than 5,000 inhabitants. So what is still driving, let alone sustaining, the continued growth of large urban populations who have no private access to fresh water or land?
Aren’t modern cities effectively the high-tech stables for human cattle?
While some dream of turning the whole world into a concrete Death Star, filled to the brim with hundreds of billions of people, because Hulu and Amazon need more subscribers, and Apple needs to sell more Vision goggles, I believe we should return humanity to a rural world, even if that means reducing the global population.
One far-right online friend mentioned to me, “Most people alive today are of a much lower quality than people used to be in ancient times.” Indeed, we have been domesticated, bred for obedience and productivity, and most aren’t even aware of it.
Too Many Humans
Even mainstream media are now heading the negative effects of “human quantitative easing” (mass migration):
“By importing millions of workers to fill vacancies, often at lower than market salaries, British companies may have felt themselves to be getting a good deal. […] It was profitable business but – in the end – practices like these have caused real damage to both British and migrant workers.”
Elon Musk—who was made a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum in 2008—warns against my kind of “extinctionist movement who see humans as a plague”. But his argument is a straw-man fallacy. Reducing our number won’t make humanity go extinct. We just need to rid ourselves of the Industrial-Age populations whose sole purpose in life is to “make money”.
In my view, dwindling population numbers rather lead to a people’s rejuvenation.
The State of The Netherlands
Without mass immigration pouring into Europe, the EU populations would have long begun to shrink. In fact, the native White Dutch population’s size peaked in 1990, and has been dwindling ever since. The continued growth of the Dutch population as a whole has since been solely due to immigration.
The reason for this strange process may seem obvious: As the White people of The Netherlands no longer wish to produce children for the factories or for ever-smaller housing units, lower-quality people (willing to work for less) move in to prop up the economy. This process cannot last indefinitely. There are conditions even the slum people of India won’t accept.
With said immigration, the return-on-investment (ROI) per capita also continues to drop. A society such as that of The Netherlands must eventually reach a point beyond which population growth no longer benefits the economy as a whole. For, why do economies have to keep growing anyway? Because its controlling elites can still profit from a lower-quality but larger population.
Escapist Fantasies
Here, we see the tension between “left-wing” and “right-wing” politics. Strangely, it is the leftists who nowadays support multinational capitalism, whereas right-wingers argue for greater personal freedoms. Such freedoms may be found by turning one’s back to the modern economy, by going off the grid, or by choosing nomadic van life.
Of course, if too many people choose to do van life, then who will be left to maintain the infrastructures that make van life possible (fueling stations, roads)? Enter, horse-and-carriage life! It only goes up-hill from there.
What about the very large urban populations of people for whom such escapist fantasies are not an option? The blue-haired lesbian crowd have already found their solution: abortions and self-sterilizations. The poor urban leftist women are already opting in to their extinction. Voluntarily.
The Law of Diminishing Returns
Eventually, the cost of complexity (religious conflict, race wars), as perfectly described by professor Joseph Tainter in his book The Collapse of Complex Societies, but begin to suppress a society’s economic value. Tainter studied the wide array of “theories of history” in order to explain the collapse of civilization, including the cyclical theories of Oswald Spengler’s Decline of the West.
Tainter then concluded that all societies must collapse, and they collapse because of the economic law of diminishing returns. During the growth phase, each additional human unit (a person) adds to the economy as a whole. There is a booming phase followed by a slowing down, during which people of higher quality are replaced by more people of a lower quality (diversity, multiculturalism).
And then, societies reach their Limit to Growth, which is the point at which additional units of people no longer contribute to the economy as a whole. At this point, every additional birth (or immigrant) constitutes the death of at least one existing unit (perhaps also due to aging demographics).
Raging capitalism and money-hunger will force such societies to 1) start killing off their unproductive elderly, 2) start exchanging their not-yet-productive (unborn) children for fully grown migrants, and 3) start replacing high-quality families for larger but lower-quality replacements—until the whole system reaches its End Point and no more economic growth can be attained.
Canada, Sick Man of the West
Canada is a prime example of this Death Spiral. Canada is already most aggressively pushing for the euthanasia of its unproductive people (elderly and sickly), while mass-replacing its once White urban populations with, basically, a copy of India and Pakistan.
The increase in human quantity cannot lead to an increase in human quality of life. Everything becomes worse. Soon, we may expect the Canadian state to collapse under the weight of its poor decisions. The many Asian immigrants looking for a “better life” may face starvation or adopt the slum life they were always used to back home.
Globalism was, in this sense, merely an attempt to “outsource” the eventualities of national economic death, from the nation to the global stage. Sure, it postponed the problem for a while, but globally, too, Tainter’s law of diminishing returns still applies.
Globally, we should expect the aggressive rise of very large urban centers filled with incredibly low-quality people: the black Africans, whose numbers may rise to 3 or 4 billion by the end of this century. Their numbers, however, will only see diminished returns on investment, per capita, thus putting a severe strain on globally available resources.
To say it bluntly, rich investors from the First World are recreating the Western business model (urbanism) in rural Africa in order to squeeze out the last remaining profits on Earth. What is even the point of doing all this? We are living in a world in which psychopathic families of billionaires have turned the planet into a giant gas station.
Is This the End?
Yes, new technologies may postpone the global economic collapse, but only at the expense of the quality of life of ordinary human beings, i.e., only by increasing inequality, as the majority of humankind shall eventually be held hostage in insane urban pods.
One can easily imagine the kinds of markets the super-rich are targeting: more medication (to drug the people into a state of passivity), more virtual-world entertainment (trapping people in fake realities to soothe unmet needs), and high-energy food addictions to keep people motivated to work for their meaningless jobs.
I don’t want to see our Earth turn into a Death Star plastered with solar panels, forcing people to live underground under fake lighting. In my book Behold the Wanderer, I explored the possible birth of a Europolis with a 600 billion population, and the “hero” eventually pulls the plug, returning a few survivors to the countryside.
And I think that’s the best course of action. Strongmen should stand up for Mother Nature and pull technology’s plug.