[EGreg]

Who says we decide it?

They voluntarily live their lives and have less children. They make the decision.

Contraception is much better than it was before. Women’s education is correlated heavily with having less children.

Elon Musk and people that think like him are the ones bemoaning it and trying to encourage them to have more children. But scratch below the surface — the reasons these “pronatalists” have stated are quite interesting.

https://fortune.com/2024/10/22/elon-musk-people-should-have-...

If you want to go the other way, consider Pavel Durov’s approach of sperm banks and fathering over 100 children he won’t have to take care of. A great way to propagate your DNA of course!

But consider the Categorical Imperative … what would happen if everyone did it?

[card_zero]

The growth rate is declining anyway, might level off at ten billion. I don't think people are having many more children than is wise, really.