In a good mood this night, although i have to catch the bus again in some hours, reason being that we( in this i refer to Manchester United) beat arsenal once again to get a step closer to the title.
On a more serious note however, while thinking about my classes (also for tommorow), i was pondering the malthusean theorem.For non-economists this simply relates population growth to resource management and implies that while population grows at a geometric rate.
i.e a * b*c * ...., resources to take care of the population will grow at an arithmentic progression a+b+c+.....; this eventually will bring us to a point at which the population will outgrow resources. Although eventually technological advancement has gladly reduced the impact of this theory, it brought me to another theory which unfortunately concerns myself and many of those who i mix with.
Imagine this scenario, thirty or fourty years from now, my children and yours whom due to our levels of exposure and our desire to provide them with the best of opportunities we have kept to two or three (in extreme cases) are all grown up and on the other hand the children of the present low income and poorly educated whom in the absence of leisurely holidays and other distractions have continued to produce offspring in droves are also living side by side in the same communities. Keeping the present poor states of social infrastructure and support systems, there will be serious pressure on the educated ellite to provide sustainability for the poor uneducated mass(the vicous cycle).
This is akin to the story of the wealthy man who wakes up one morning in his well guarded mansion only to find his neighbours from the community fetching water from his swimming pool.
Scary aint it.
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