(a) Not according to https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/world-population-by-year/ https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/world-populat... it

(a) Not according to https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/world-population-by-year/ https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/world-populat... it isn't. Assuming no centenarians and adding up the populations every 100 years from 200 to 1804 I get 4.6 billion people, of whom we can assume more or less half--so 2.3 billion--are guys. Drop out a generous ten percent for non-binary and assume AMAB is balanced with AFAB and that's still over two billion, which I consider good enough for 'billions, plural'. You did say 'begins at 2', and you might think this would put a crimp in the analysis, but at this kind of nit-pickery I'll point out that by 1850 there was another 200 million people (net) to offset early childhood mortality. Anyway who's talking about stocks, I'm talking about dudes and their 'love for cars [that] begins at 2 and never ends'.