Actually it does. In my country, we have money printed on paper, which comes from trees. See , I can be a smartass to. Seriously, dont think we are idiots here.
Why is the world temperature rising? Thats because of decrease in no. of pirates around the world. So global warming is linked to decreasing no. of pirates in the world. Here is the graph
In other words, co-relation does not mean causation. The ----ing fact that Chinese opened up the economy 15 years ahead of us totally not responsible for us lagging behind china by 15 years in any way or so?
Israel has a higher fertility rate than India. So is Israel poorer than India?Btw, Isreal has a physiological density about thrice that of India
here I think you have skipped this video- this is by Economic Prof. Stephen Landburg, who wrote the famous "the armchair economist" book. Now after watching that video, come and debate.
PS: You would get a proper debate if you drop that attitude. The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance but illusion of it. Thanks
Sorry it wasn't my intention, you will love this webpage then
Spurious Correlations
my personal loved correlation is
Per capita consumption of mozzarella cheese (US) correlates with Civil engineering doctorates awarded (US)
Israel rate of birth is a consequence of the treats that the country has, it is a biological thing (plus government push for it)
Plus the birth rate isn't the cause but the consequence, by heavy investing in industrialisation Chinese population became highly urbanised bringing up the cost of progeny. So what i meant wasn't that you were poor because you were overpopulated but that you were overpopulated because you aren't industrializating correctly and you are protecting other sectors.
Seeing the video and pointing out doubts about it.
1- The fact that he isn't including in the benefits workforce, shows that his models is primary centred in a first world country and not a third world country specially with a high rural population like india, where i imagine children still works
In 2001, out of a 12.6 million child workers, about 120,000 children in India were in a hazardous job.[7] UNICEF estimates that India with its larger population, has the highest number of labourers in the world under 14 years of age, while sub-saharan African countries have the highest percentage of children who are deployed as child labour.[8][9][10] International Labour Organisation estimates that agriculture at 60 percent is the largest employer of child labour in the world,[11] while United Nation's Food and Agriculture Organisation estimates 70% of child labour is deployed in agriculture and related activities.[12] Outside of agriculture, child labour is observed in almost all informal sectors of the Indian economy.[13][14][15]"
2- He is analysing mainly the social effects, still to grow that apple to fish that fish you need natural resources and they are limited, and not in a far future but right now this is from the FAO
Or from the world bank
AS you can see we are at break even point and Asia is still vastly growing, countries like Philipines and Indonesia haven't started the boom and lets not talk at all about Africa.
3- While confronting the two families, yes the numerous families will have a lot of the benefits that he mentioned, but they will have less capital to put in practice their Ideas, they will be more illiterate since
at the same working condition what a parent can give to a one son is the double of what the other father can give to his two sons.
So from one side you will have two sons with a high schools degree and no capital and on the other one a Phd one with capital. In a world like ours with our level of specialisation who do you think will have the most winning idea? who do you think will have the money and the knowledge to put down the production line to realise his idea?
The next generation of the populous family will get a better education since their parents worked and thanks to the value added they are richer, but at the same time this happens also with the 0 increase family, their child will get even more education and capital than their previous generation keeping the advantage on the populous family.
From a social side the mere the merrier but as the article i posted before (have you read it? ) economically it is proved that a 1,4 fertility rate economy is viable.