Re:Feelings at the Fall of the Republic, Ancient and Medieva...
by ZeroGravitas on Saturday August 07, 2021 @08:45AM
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> Whenever technology raises your living standards, you have more children, and average GDP per head returns to subsistence level.
I thought it was 1. people have lots of kids because lots of them die, 2. progress in terms of stopping babies and children dying means more adults than expected survive to adulthood, 3. Those adults then adjust to the new reality and start having less kids.
Re:Feelings at the Fall of the Republic, Ancient and Medieva...
by dash2 on Saturday August 07, 2021 @09:22AM
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That's the post-Malthusian world where there's effective birth control. Now, how exactly you get from Malthus to post-Malthus is a very tricky question.
I thought it was 1. people have lots of kids because lots of them die, 2. progress in terms of stopping babies and children dying means more adults than expected survive to adulthood, 3. Those adults then adjust to the new reality and start having less kids.