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People should have as many children as they desire but the idea advanced by some that a smaller population will be problematic is simply wrong.

Smaller populations will not be a negative but will help humanity soften the impact of climate change and save the other species we share the planet with by protecting their shrinking habitat.

Robots equipped with artificial general intelligence (thanks Elon) will wipe our aging asses and grow and prepare our food.

Young people will have less competition for jobs so their wages will rise and with less demand for housing the cost of the existing housing stock will become more affordable.

Nobel prize winning economist Paul Krugman looked at low birth rate Japan and penned an amazingly optimistic report on its economic conditions. "In some ways, Japan, rather than being a cautionary tale, is a kind of role model - an example of how to manage difficult demography while remaining prosperous and socially stable.

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