From the comments to David Thompson’s A Czar, You Say?, on the eugenic plans of John Holdren (Assistant to President Barack Obama for Science and Technology) for limiting human population:
If one wants to control population growth, the surest method is to increase the affluence and mechanization of people’s lives. When the utility of an additional child is less than the cost of having them, birth control becomes an attractive option.
See, that’s exactly what I was saying a few days ago, regarding the reasons for why people are having fewer children today than they did fifty years ago: The increased mechanization (at least in the farming sector) means that they don’t need to have the kids around to do manual work in the “family business.”
For that matter, the (assumed) decrease in family-owned businesses over the past half-century, and the evaporating of the expectation that your children would take the business over from you when they grow up and you retire, is probably another significant piece of that puzzle, for urban dwellers.
No bullshit about high IQs in positions of power, or nihilistic atheists, or Stuff White People Like, is even relevant in that.
