Demography, economy, and society

A family has four members, father, mother, and two babies. Two babies got killed. GDP per capita instantly doubled. An economic miracle!

What’s more! The mother is freed from taking care of babies. She can now taking a salaried job. GDP per capita doubled again. Another economic miracle!

This is not the end. In a family with kids, people normally work from nine to five, five days a week. In a family of no kid, it is normal to work from nine to nine, six days a week. This further stretches GDP per capita!

For several decades, some societies are enamored of their economic miracles, paying no attention to the great loss of life, paying no attention to the looming demographic disaster. But chickens will come home to roost.

If it is casual to abort babies, it can’t be that serious to abort adults. If the goal is noble enough, you could be locked up in your homes or locked down in your cities. You could burn to death in your locked apartment or jump to death from your open window.

A senior person has fond memories of the good old days. A senile society has fond memories of the good old days. But it was in the good old days that “planned parenthood” was planted. Today we are merely harvesting what we have sown long ago.