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![This vision-building plate asks, “Did underpopulation affluence Make America Great (for Euro-overpopulation migrants mostly)?” Ben Franklin speaks from his image on a $100 bill, explaining how underpopulation (after natives died of diseases and violence) translated into great riches for early immigrants. Ben speaks these words from his 1755 essay called, Observations on the Increase of Mankind. “Europe is generally full settled … and therefore cannot now much increase in people.” “Land being” plentiful “in America and so cheap that a labouring Man, that understands Husbandry, can in a short Time save Money enough to purchase … Land sufficient for a Plantation, whereon he may” support “a family.” Land is so ample that children will find “more Land is to be had at Rates equally easy.” So “[O]ur people must at least be doubled every 20 Years.” “What an accession of Power to the British Empire…”](https://russadamsjd.com/wp-content/uploads/Is-underpopulation-affluence-what-made-America-great.webp "Ben-Franklin-on-underpopulation-affluance")
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