🚀 go-pugleaf

pciszek@otherworld.std.com wrote:
> 
> In article <3666512e.29149935@news1.newscene.com>,
> guess away <not@here.org> wrote:
> >On 2 Dec 1998 07:42:02 GMT, "Dan D." <dand@rmi.net> wrote:
> >
> >>Sperm counts are dropping, supposedly from use of plastics.
> >>Close enough?
> >
> >If it effectively reduces birth rates to something under 2/family,
> >yes.
> 
> Less than 2 children per family, achieved *unintentionally* with no
> means of reversing it, means extinction.

But if it's intentional, combined with increasing roboticization of the
industries, means an ever-increasing level of industrial wealth per person.

Eventually, we have only wanted-children in the position to receive all that
they will ever need, possibly all that they will ever want. Isn't that close
to a definition of heaven, or at least the definition of the gate thereto?
None would lack except by their wish.

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