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The historical problem is too many children surviving childhood. The oldest son gets the farm, the youngest gets nothing. The solutions have been things like:
by sliverstorm 12y ago
The historical problem is too many children surviving childhood. The oldest son gets the farm, the youngest gets nothing.
The solutions have been things like:
- subdivide the property (not sustainable)
- The younger son goes to the military, or the frontier, or...
- The younger son courts a daughter in a family with no sons
- mjevans 12y agoThere are only three possible outcomes. - Increase the death rate (war, disease, etc) - Establish an equilibrium and plan for a given number of living beings, preventing the formation of new ones until there are free resources. (Attempting to defy this will lead to the previous or next outcome.) - Expand in to new areas to provide more SPACE!
- bryanlarsen 12y agoIt's a historical problem, it's already been solved in developing countries. Nothing drastic, just dropping the birth rate below 2.1.
- bryanlarsen 12y agoIt's a historical problem, it's already been solved in developing countries. Nothing drastic, just dropping the birth rate below 2.1.
- baddox 12y agoIs giving more inheritance to the oldest child still a thing?