Your premise is that anyone having children at all is equivalent to unbounded population growth. If literally everyone stopped having children, humans would obviously become extinct.
Moreover, it is generally considered a sound principle that successful professionals should be encouraged to have children. Whatever combination of genes, knowledge and resources allowed them to become successful themselves is more likely to lead to a successful next generation. And high income earners are more likely to accept paying taxes to fund good schools and other programs for children if they have their own children to make use of them.
I downvoted because this seems likely to start a tired, ideological digression from the topic. Also, your snarky implication of a dichotomy between "humans are a plague" and "unbounded population growth is favorable" didn't help.
I actually agree that population growth will likely need to be regulated one day, but the wording is unnecessarily inflammatory and it's too far off topic for this thread.
I read things all the time that espouse the benefits of large families and how important it is to keep society fit by having more children.
It's like they want to keep the Ponzi going by adding more and more people.
It's quite clear, especially in places like China, India, and Indonesia that runaway population growth is incredibly destructive to the environment.
If government and taxation and retirement systems require more and more population in order to operate successfully it's all coming down at some point.
> If government and taxation and retirement systems require more and more population in order to operate successfully it's all coming down at some point.
Yup. And the longer you wait to fix it, the more painful it's going to be.
It also seems like most people are driven purely by instinct, the moment you even suggest they shouldn't breed like rabbits it's regarded as the most offensive thing you could possibly say. It's weird, I don't see how they suggest we keep going. When should we stop ? 10 billion, 15 billion ? Or just wait until society collapses and we go extinct ?
