How to get to 10 trillion people in this solar system?

At 10:25 AM 5/23/2006, you wrote:
>On 5/23/06, Al Globus wrote:
> > I think the solar system can support perhaps 10 trillion people in orbital
> > colonies because obital colonies with a total ...
>...snip...
> > well-educated women not under the thumb of their man average roughly 2
> > kids, not enough to increase the population.
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>(...)
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>Well, there are civilizations were women *do live* under the thumb of
>their men and in general are not well educated. Taking into account
>what could be called society-level natural selection, those societies
>that breed most will probably be the ones that will take over the
>Solar System. They are already taking over places on Earth were people
>"reproduce" by immigration, like Europe.
>
>I am sorry if my statement is too blunt, but I think it is the reality.

At least in the early colonies, it is very likely that everyone, including
the women, will be technically well trained and probably pretty independent.

In any case, even in Africa, the Mid-East, and (I believe) Latin America
birth rates are falling rapidly. I'm not sure, but I presume this is due
to an improvement in the status of women in general.