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BRUTE wrote:

Dragline wrote:Works great on population control so long as "winging it" is equal opportunity.

turns out the free market is best at figuring out the right population size. who would've thought.

Umm - no, that's not what I said at all and the data is decidedly against that notion. It's about equality of gender, regardless of the market system involved. Where there is no equality of gender, a free market system is likely to produce even more children as fuel for growth and as a substitute for social safety nets. This is why the lowest fertility rates are found in the socialist democracies of Europe and places like Cuba. (The only lower rates are found in small, crowded city-states or islands like Singapore or Macau). In the developed countries, higher fertility rates are found in places with more open markets like the U.K. and U.S., or in France where they essentially pay people to have children. Highest fertility rates are found in countries with lots of poverty and gender inequality.