>>511032276>Low population is a good thing if immigration can be controlled.Also true. It's the capitalist "number goes up forever and ever" mentality that encourages immigration to keep the working age population growing but in an ideal situation, you find some golden population number over time where the productivity of a single individual (with technology) is enough to provide enough surplus value for society that they both have a lot of leverage to negotiate pretty good pay and we don't need a ton of people to maintain a technologically modern society's luxuries and necessities
If you abandon the arbitrary metrics of economic health that americans use, you can start to actually look at what works best for citizenry standard of living and sustainability