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Date:      Wed, 23 Jul 1997 12:45:06 -0700 (PDT)
From:      "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb>
To:        jlemon@americantv.com (Jonathan Lemon)
Cc:        jmb@FreeBSD.ORG, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FTC regulating use of registrations
Message-ID:  <199707231945.MAA09748@hub.freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <19970723125924.34666@right.PCS> from "Jonathan Lemon" at Jul 23, 97 12:59:24 pm

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Jonathan Lemon wrote:
> 
> On Jul 07, 1997 at 10:24:48AM -0700, Jonathan M. Bresler wrote:
> > Michael Smith wrote:
> > > 
> > > Jordan K. Hubbard stands accused of saying:
> > > > There is a far easier solution to this problem, of course:
> > > > Don't &%$!@#* reproduce!
> > > 
> > > Woo!  Go team!  Voluntary ZPG!
> > 
> > 	who will volunteer for ZPG....the best educated, the most
> > 	caring members of society or least?  would you want to live
> > 	in a society that results from X generations of the best
> > 	educated and most caring members of society practicing
> > 	ZPG while the rest of society did not...not for me, thank you.
> 
> An interesting statistic is that the most educated members of the population
> have, as a group, less than 2 children, and thus do not contribute to the 
> population growth.  Less educated members tend to have larger families and
> contribute more to the population growth.

	WARNING: no solid data.

	seems to me that this is a recent change.  effective, tolerable
	contraception is relatively recent, before that everyone had 
	a lot of children, and many died trying.  (js bach, 25 kids?)

	the better educated may have had a higher precentage of their
	children survive.

	WARNING: no solid data.
jmb



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