"Population is a resource"What do you consider 21st century macroeconomic arguments? And what time periods are you referring too?
"We need to bring millions of immigrants to our country to keep the economy going. And by 'need' I mean 'we should actively recruit people from other countries to come and live in ours'. Fortunately, none of the governments of the other countries will be suspicious of our recruiters at all. Nor will they try to impede your recruiting work.
"We must focus all our efforts as a nation on depending on international trade for our survival"
"Any alternative to implementing the economic globalization and just-in-time economics as soon as possible is economic suicide and must be nipped in the bud"
"Any motivation and argument that is not directly related to the economy can and should be ignored: outside nationalism, religion, culture and everything that cannot be expressed in monetary units. Fuck off about what people will think about this"
"People will give up their traditions and beliefs if you only talk them about how all of this is against economic logic"
"The best form of economic regulation is that there is no regulation at all"
"We must prioritize the economy first and ignore everything else"
"Everything is an addition game zero in which every dollar our neighbor earns is a dollar we lose,"
"Slavery should be abolished solely because it is uneconomical, and the only way we will care about the debate about its immorality is to use it as an excuse to get the population to accept this decision,"
"We really shouldn't have colonies, but this is because they're uneconomical and cost more than profit. Fuck prestige, fuck morality, and fuck that means everyone else can colonize all they want."
All of which will sound like utter insanity, if not delusions completely out of touch with reality, to virtually any political leader living in 1914 or earlier.
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