by Pops » Tue 26 May 2015, 09:15:31
SilentRunning wrote:Tanada wrote:Millionaires and up are a tiny percentage of the reproductive age adults on this planet, they could each have 20 kids and it wouldn't matter a hill of beans.
The bad news is that the lower echelons of society have a strong tendency to try to emulate the elites.
Not many commute to work at the quick stop in a Gulfstream or have a cabin in Aspen, emulate doesn't mean duplicate.
In a rural setting, children are free slave labor so a financial asset. Living in town, they are a financial burden, that is kind of the point of showing off by having lots of kids.
On the positive side, rich folks splitting their wealth between many offspring is pretty well the same as a large inheritance tax.
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