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Lower_Adhesiveness25 t1_j5q7a0s wrote

Reply to comment by der_titan in WTO chief calls for global carbon pricing by DeepHistory

so if your population booms and lowers your gdp per pop ratio you are a developing nation? ridiculous. they have nuclear arms and massive international sway - they are hardly developing nations.

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der_titan t1_j5qiypf wrote

Exactly. If my partner and I make $200K / year, we can live comfortably in most places in the US. If we have eight children to support on that $200K / year, we would struggle: the rent increase alone would be ruinous, not to mention food, clothing, and medical costs.

For the US to have GDP per capita similar to China, the US population would have to swell to more than 1.5B people - five times its current population.

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