Pun intended. Humans love to procreate. They exist apparently for a singular purpose like any living organism. Just ask the Duchess of Cambridge. Be that as it may we certainly do not like to think of the consequenes. As in how many more people do we need to call it game over?
Every city and county and state and country is faced with balancing issues - those involving their budgets and its no surprise that demand has exceeded supply or at least the rate of supply. There is no forever. So while anyone can be selfish in their approach to living large I do not quite get the idea to manufacture more than one in the family.
One and done on a global scale (for those that somehow feel compelled to have that one) could bring about a new lease on life so to speak. Such experiments have been attempted on a large scale before (China being a recent example) yet it might be too little too late. Especially in light of increased life spans for the cretins still left on the planet.
Clearly like in any macro economy someone with less kids will subsidize the costs of living for someone with more. In the form of public schooling, other public resources including food stamps and shelter and unemployment insurance and medical services. That in itself could be another pointer to privatizing all forms of life sustaining services so that the reality of cost can help people make better decisions.
Here is another essay on the subject of first names. As in birth names. Or names provided to an offspring at birth. While the developed world tends to shy away from the exotic like Refrigerator or Coca Cola for their new production there is a plethora of Jims and Johns and Bobs or Robs. Speaking of which I do not think there is a categoric decision point at the time of birth if a child will be hereafter called as Bob. I mean have not yet met a toddler called Bob or Rob for that matter. At some point though the parental instinct to mouth out multiple syllables runs out and they switch from calling the crawler Robert to simply Robbie to Rob. Now speaking of - it is strange that the name sounds like something you would not want Rob to do - i.e. Rob anyone. Then why call someone that? After all Rob Peter to Pay Paul is not exactly a maxim to live a young life? Is it? Perhaps Peter or Paul might want to have a say in it? Then there is this matter of going to the John. Why degrad...
How would you get an African (or Asian or European for that matter) to agree with all this?
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