Perhaps that's what the world's most popular podcaster, Joe Rogan has also wondered. Because according to a new report by The Blaze, Rogan is on his way out of California and heading to Texas because he wants "a little bit more freedom".
On one of his latest podcasts, Rogan said: "I'm outta here. I'm gonna go to Texas. I just want to go somewhere in the center of the country, somewhere it's easier to travel to both places, and somewhere where you have a little bit more freedom."
He continued: "Also I think that um, where we live right here in Los Angeles is overcrowded. And I think, most of the time that's not a problem. But I think it's exposing the fact that it's a real issue, when you look at the number of people that uh, are catching COVID because of this overpopulation issue."
"When you look at the traffic, when you look at the economic despair, when you look at the homelessness problem that's accelerated radically over the last six, seven, ten years, I think there's too many people here," he continued.
"I think it's not tenable, I don't think that it's manageable. And every mayor does a shit job of doing it because I don't think anybody could do a great job of it. I think there's certain things you're gonna have to deal with when you have a population of whatever the f**k L.A. is, it's like twenty million plus people," Rogan said.
Several months ago, Rogan had said that the coronavirus lockdown had enticed him into the idea of moving: "If California continues to be this restrictive, I don't know if this is a good place to live. I might jet. I'm not kidding. I'm not kidding, this is silly. I don't need to be here."
You can watch video of Rogan explaining his decision here:
And that although he's interviewed some of the utmost brainiacs on the planet, including Peter Schiff I think 4 times now.
Yet, none of that seems to make a lasting impact on him.
Yes, there are many people in LA, but they are not as cramped together as for example in NYC or San Francisco. People in LA use the car much more than people in NYC or SF. So this can't possibly explain that people in LA get infected with Covid more.
As to economic despair: if overpopulation was the cause then India should have slid more and more into economic despair over the past 20 years during which their population grew. But the exact opposite happened: they became more prosperous, not less. In spite of the increase in population. Why? Because they turned from a highly regulated, quasi socialist system to a more free market system.
As to homelessness: again, it has nothing to do with overpopulation but with policies. Joe just a few days ago had Ben Shapiro on his show who explained it to him with the exact examples of policies which were changed which caused the homelessness problem, yet it does not seem to make any dent in Joe's thinking.