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by mikeash 4032 days ago
If your goal is to live in comfort after you're too old to work, then having lots of children is often the best way to accomplish that in a crappy country. Odds are good at least one of them will survive and do well enough to support you when you're old.

In a nicer place with better finance and social security systems, you can pull it off without having a lot of children.