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&gt;There is a societal benefit to incentivizing having kids. Society needs people to breed because it allows society to continue

There are 7 billion people.  Seven *billion*.  We're at no risk of running out of people.

From 1980 to 2013 (*33 years!*), China had a ['One Child'](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-child_policy) policy.    Nonetheless, they have close to 1.4 *billion* people.

[There's a strong argument to be made that the exact opposite of what you say is true, and that we need to limit reproduction to avert a Malthusian catastrophe](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malthusian_catastrophe) unless the rate of increase in our agricultural output keeps pace with the potentially exponential population growth.


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