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The Economist Philip Pilkington wrote an essay on what he called “Capitalism’s Overlooked Contradictionâ€. He identified this contradiction as the “tendency of the rate of people to fall.†Pilkington was here borrowing from Marx, whose prediction of a necessary collapse of capitalism and transition to communism was premised on a fundamental contradiction he believed he... Read More
[Editor’s note: This article was written before yesterday’s legislative elections in Poland. According to preliminary results, the ruling Law and Justice Party got the most votes but failed to win a majority of seats. The pro-Brussels leader of the opposition Civic Coalition, Donald Tusk, appears to have a better chance at forming a coalition government.... Read More
Elon Musk often tweets (or x’s) about the danger of depopulation: “Far too many people are under the illusion that Earth is overpopulated, even though birth rate trends are so obviously headed to population collapseâ€, “A collapsing birth rate is the biggest danger civilization faces by farâ€, “The world’s population is accelerating towards collapseâ€, etc.... Read More