How to get to 10 trillion people in this solar system?

Forum: Spacesettlers
Thread: How to get to 10 trillion people in this solar system?

# 7800 bylucioc@... on May 23, 2006, 7:58 p.m.
Member since 2021-10-03

On 5/23/06, Omar E. Vega wrote:
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> I don't think so. Governments work for only one people: the people
> that is in charge of government !

Exactly. And with less people outside the government, littler is the
tax income of the government. That can be a powerful motivation.

> They don't care their population nor about numbers. If they have
> excess of people they send them to war.

Well, the one-child law in China says otherwise. And in fact I am
afraid that it would be difficult to kill a significant part of the
Chinese population in war. ;-)

> If the lack people they import
> immigrants. It is cheaper to import immigrants than to force their own
> people to have children. Look at the global market of adoptions as a
> variant of the same thing.
>
> The problem is, sooner or later the supply of immigrants will run out.
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And so internal production will be the only option.