> Everyone then has max kids according to the "1 fewer than mother" rule. 1 fewer is not the rule. The rule is "every woman has to have fewer children than he

> Everyone then has max kids according to the "1 fewer than mother" rule. 1 fewer is not the rule. The rule is "every woman has to have fewer children than her mother" There will be some whose mother had 10 then the daughter had 1. This narrative implies that every woman is having as many kids as possible all the time, which is both unrealistic and misleading by statistics. With a narrative sample size of one, the story is indicating that the number of people inevitably increased because of the rule rather than explaining this is an edge case paradox.