It pays off in a less tangible sense, that the people who run the factory will have a successful line of children. > That's why it is a prisoners dilemma. I d

It pays off in a less tangible sense, that the people who run the factory will have a successful line of children. > That's why it is a prisoners dilemma. I disagree. In the prisoner's dilemma the prisoner chooses to defect despite it ultimately and predictably having a negative effect on himself personally.