Technology is a pretty big miss. Interesting to note that a lot of ideas contemporary with Malthus were wrong. For example, it was thought that the popular use

Technology is a pretty big miss. Interesting to note that a lot of ideas contemporary with Malthus were wrong. For example, it was thought that the popular use of contraception would result in people marrying younger, since men would not fear taking a wife early in their career (they could control when and how many children to have, in harmony with whatever economic resources they might have). It turns out that contraception had the opposite effect