>>14679929Oh right sorry. I sometimes forget what I posted earlier. Malthus hated the poor. His big thing was the more food you produced, the more stinking poor people would survive and eventually the earth would drown in a tide of the unwashed and uncouth. He was incredibly wrong and Blade Runner is about the only work of fiction coming to mind with the balls to state the obvious: we're underpopulated. But anyway, his hatred was born out classic British classism. Neomalthusianism comes from productivity gospel. An ad-hoc reaction of the paranoid rentier. We took your job, we don't want you as potential competition, we'll pension you off and send your kid to die in a border skirmish.
