How to get to 10 trillion people in this solar system? Forum: Spacesettlers
Thread: How to get to 10 trillion people in this solar system?
# 7798 byoevega@... on May 23, 2006, 7:41 p.m.
Member since 2021-10-03
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> Well, some economists (like Hans-Hermann Hoppe) blame welfare for the
> declining birth rates. In old times, when there was *no* welfare at
> all, children were seen as a kind of "retirement plan": after you get
> old and beyond productive age, you would have no appreciable income,
> but your children would take care of you anyway. After
> government-sponsored retirement was invented, though, it seemed less
> and less advantageous from the personal economic planning point of
> view to have children.
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rights to receive a welfare check. Make that and certainly population
will boom again.
Regards,
Omar Vega