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The book addresses this argument.

One point is that when people have secure lives, the birth rate plummets. When your only capital is children, you make more children. By meeting the needs of the worst off, they have fewer children, not more.

I'm sure there were other points made, but I don't want to attempt to restate those from my shaky memory of what I read more than a year ago.



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