> The people who lived in poverty didn't create much innovation at all But as their incomes tripled and their children survived childhood, their birthdates dro

> The people who lived in poverty didn't create much innovation at all But as their incomes tripled and their children survived childhood, their birthdates dropped and their surviving children are better educated and less malnourished. This has been happening almost everywhere in the world, and is why world population will peak in a couple decades without mass starvation.