fashion percolates upward from the ghetto(then idiot white kids wearing their caps backwards followed by idiot white male adults doing the same) we should have a poll how many ET traders wears caps backwards and the correlation to income.
Population isn't a problem if food cultivation and industry can keep the people fed, clothed, and housed. Doesn't matter how many people you have if they are all working together to form a self sustaining civilization.
Population is a problem if your economy is driven by consumption and the consumers are not growing in number. Have we really had economic growth, or was it just a result of consumer growth?
Or the cheap human resource like in China.But no growth for the decade in Japan, despite it`s the 11-th by population.