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    1 year ago

    Reasons like, eg, wage suppression, goosing the housing market, artificially inflating GDP and/or avoiding having to make hard decisions like investing in infrastructure and taxing the wealthy.

    Keeping our population reasonably young should be in there, too. And maybe helping them out of non-lethal but bad situations in the third world, if you’re the type of person that’s concerned about the people in question themselves.