The problem is that Malthus argued the basis of population mechanics from the point of view of an aristocrat. He didn’t see the people as self-improving and therefore concluded only the highest class of people should be allowed to live and giving any improvement to the living conditions of the lower classes was a prescription for disaster for him. Therefore, his work as a whole is something to be discarded as there’s better theorists on population mechanics and ecology that don’t come with all the baggage of aristocracy and eugenics.
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