How does a democratic society implement growth restrictions?
- Population growth
- Economic growth
- Geographic growth
I assume geographic growth means developing land as opposed to invading neighbors, right?
Population growth combines average children per couple, and at what age they have them. Prosperity generally drives the number down and the reproduction age up, so no need for a democratic society to do the intrusive Chinese one child policy stuff. Longevity is a red-herring, it does not increase growth and between us the US life expectancy is going down, not up.
The magic number?
I am skating on thin ice here but with my wife we have been going over three vs. two children families for the people we know. Our anecdotal conclusion is that two kid siblings are more likely to exhibit problematic outcomes in our subjective view. Glad you asked, I have three kids, and we were three children...
The economic part is a two step process:
1) Convince me to run for office
2) Vote for me