People are not created equally. There is a heavy negative correlation between IQ and education, and fertility. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/ab

People are not created equally. There is a heavy negative correlation between IQ and education, and fertility. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0160289607000244#:~:text=1.1.,with%20higher%20levels%20of%20IQ https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01602.... "There were strong negative correlations found between national IQ and three national indicators of fertility." In many parts of the world, the primary occupation has been, is, and forever will be - subsistence agriculture, with a typical IQ of the country in the 60s/70s. In these countries the fertility rate is ~6.0. In many European and East Asian countries, responsible for essentially all of mankind's technological achievement over the past centuries, the fertility rate is typically 1.50 or lower. As the age pyramid flips, more of the productive effort of these latter countries goes towards funding the welfare state, and the capacity for development and advancement is limited. The burden of maintaining this welfare state further diminishes fertility. Many countries are now in death spirals: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_spiral_(insurance) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_spiral_(insurance) The idea that we should limit the taxation of families - the fundamental basis of civilization - is totally valid.