Quote Originally Posted by Johnson85 View Post
You are making some pretty big assumptions about the people who are aborted. Generally, people are an asset to a country, at least in the US. And Thermo is not the relevant question when you are talking about resources being finite. We are no where near running out of assets in a thermo sense. What is relevant right now are resources that are economic. We would have more energy needs with more people and also more resources would be economic to meet those needs.

All that to say, I'm pretty sure the take you call brain dead would be closer to consensus among economists than your take.
Contributing people is an asset to a country. Bad people are not. Measure through the lens of evolution?..most of these deadweights have been nurtured to be takers only. They would never make it in the wild.