> Not to get too off topic, but higher birth rates equal more economic growth, or at least the potential for it. This kind of thinking is just seems like an at

> Not to get too off topic, but higher birth rates equal more economic growth, or at least the potential for it. This kind of thinking is just seems like an attempt to optimize a metric. Say I add 10 million people to a country, each of whom make a dollar a day. We could say the country's GDP has grown, but in reality I'd say the country's poverty problem has simply swelled.