The Atlantic: Musk's High-Tech Polygamy Is a Dead End

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4. The business world is built on the idea of constant growth

It doesn't understand the concept of a healthy plateau or a decline to a sustainable size.

In fairness, our concept of generational health has been built on having enough kids to care for you in old age. Either physically sharing the labor or societally to share the cost (ie Social Security and Medicare).

The Baby Boom generation will be the first glimpse of what that looks like when subsequent generations are smaller. It would become a bigger challenge if the taxpayer/retiree ratio changes further. Fortunately, GenX is a relatively small generation. But the Millennials could be in a difficult position if Gen Z swears off children the way it seems they might. Which is why immigration is an economic plus.