[mLuby]

It's survivorship bias—where bias means skewed from the full distribution of choices people and societies made, not bias as in discrimination.

Most of the families and societies that didn't prioritize population growth (by reproduction or immigration) aren't around to advocate for that approach's merits, whereas those that did are.

Fun fact: for each human alive today there've been 15 deceased humans ever. As zombie apocalypses go, 15:1 doesn't sound too bad.

Kurzgesagt has some interesting videos on human population if that's your style: https://youtu.be/LEENEFaVUzU?t=206 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsBT5EQt348

[nayuki]

Primer has an interesting video too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6sa_fWQB_4 "How many people might ever exist, calculated"