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Yes. Very relevant: http://xkcd.com/603/ http://xkcd.com/603/
by MasterScrat 12y ago
Yes. Very relevant: http://xkcd.com/603/ http://xkcd.com/603/
- defen 12y agoFor an alternative view...see "A Farewell to Alms" by Gregory Clark. From about 1200-1800, in England, the rich actually had more surviving descendants than the poor. I don't know who had more births, but that doesn't matter. Basically, the poor would periodically die off from famine and disease, whereas if the economic upper classes had too many children, they would move into the lower classes (rather than die). Most people of English descent today are descended from the upper classes of the Middle Ages.