(June 8, 2017 at 10:02 am)Mister Agenda Wrote:Anomalocaris Wrote:You proposal to give everyone an automatic living wage regardless of whether the value of their active contribution exceeds the cost of feeding them would seem to make things worse?
Prosperity is associated with lower birth rates, so it does not follow that income support will increase population growth...lack of income support certainly doesn't seem to slow it down. Being sure income support is generous enough to support substantial electronic entertainment may help more with the birth rate.
Prosperity resulting in lower birth rate is fundmentally different from elevated income resulting from every one having a assured living wage.
When everyone is assured a living wage, a family relying on such assurances has incentive to get bigger because income increases proportionally per head, where as cost does not. So pursuit of "relative" prosperity incentivized bigger families.
The sort of prosperity that results in lower birth rate is primarily based on clear relationship between increased income and greater effort and skill. raising children interferes with effort and acquisition of skill, hence pursuit of prosperity incentivized smaller families.
