Perfect example of why we want minimal Govt. involvement

[DanielVogelbach]

What contributes to the problem are the FUTURE FELON FACTORY WELFARE QUEENS that the poor taxpayers are forced to sponsor. They poop out more babies than they would have any hope of supporting on their own.
Our birth rate IS trending downward and so in 100 years I hope we might be able to return what our population was in the 1950s.
BTW..the "astounding amount of open space" that's left in the USA is mostly harsh, unliveable, hard to develop, or else government land. All the "best kept secret areas" were gobbled up years ago.

There's tons of rural living opportunities if you don't want to be crowded like in a city.

What contributes to overcrowding is not birthrates, it's an influx of people. Detroit is not crowded. Birthrates are higher in rural areas. (lower cost of living, more hands for the farm)

Population will most likely increase for a few more decades and then level off. Or maybe the coronavirus will kill us all.

Some infrastructure is way better to handle the density. Take for example the red and green lights in parking lots to tell you which spots are open. Small thing, big impact. Same thing with high speed rail. Get some damn cars off the highway.

We all know what overpopulation really looks like, though:

[dpenksa]

Dtrain love you man! You and I have the same politics in a lot of ways and you invited me to these forums. I am a retired Postal worker after 20 years of service. I was a clerk and we are FORCED by management to require customers to provide their own tape. UPS and FedEx do not provide free shipping boxes, the customers pay extra for them.
Priority and express mail other than tape the packaging is free and most are self sealing.
I retired earlier than I wanted because of management and staff cuts. So if a customer cannot get a free piece of tape the Postal
Service is BY FAR a cheaper and faster service than the others. This is from someone who hated working there.
With respect

[DanielVogelbach]

It's also pure spin regarding the postal service, because capitalism does the same thing in terms of cutting costs by limiting customer service. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. Charging for tape is like charging for dipping sauce or making customers grab napkins one by one out of a dispenser. The postal service is not taxpayer funded, and there are competitive options for package delivery with FedEx and UPS. So, it's really not an example of "government run stuff is bad". I have actually been using USPS quite a bit lately. I print the labels at home, drop it off, and track them. No difference in delivery times versus UPS Ground.

Another key thing to remember is not to make generalizations based on anecdotes. An organization could be operating at 99.99% perfection, and you have the .01% negative experience and assume they suck. Obviously, you never get a second chance to make a first impression. And, with many businesses you never get a second impression. But, if we're talking about larger concepts, you want aggregate data. Does UPS lose less packages than USPS? Do they have less delays? Well, you sure pay a lot more for the service, so you would expect that to be the case. But, again, give me hard data not one package sent one time by one guy.

[DavidGee24]

Maybe it was that guy from Fight Club.

Darren should have intervened and said, "Hey, it's just a piece of tape, Bitch Tits".