Humans stop evolving?

[GeneralMotors]

its scary how rich and sucessful people normally choose not to have children whilst lower classes have large families..

However.. higher class people aren't necessarily smarter or better genetically :P

[maikeru]

I don't find it scary at all. It's more a matter of what people can and will allow themselves. There are too many of us--smart, pretty, successful, or not--in this world. As things are, the world cannot contain us all without dire consequences now and worse ahead.

Whether people choose to have more or less children often depends on the circumstances they are in and what their priorities are--i.e., what they can and will bear and where they can direct their resources. One of my friends in Italy would like to have several children and raise a large family, but he and his girlfriend cannot maintain more than one or two children, with their current income and living standards (in a small apartment). Any more children would place them under dangerous financial burden. If you live on a farm and need more labor, having more children might make more sense, as it did in the old days when people were colonizing or farming large tracts of land. You provide your own employment, food, etc. If you live on government welfare and have polygynist relationships, as some (strange) polygamists do in the "Four Corners" area of the US Southwest, you may even support dozens of children at no serious detriment to yourself (and a lot of detriment to the taxpayers--this is known as scamming the government).

[Pyrotex]

Originally Posted by InfiniteNow

Not 100% relevant to the thread, but I can't keep from laughing every time I see this. I shared it somewhere else recently, but if you missed it, check it out. ...

Way too funny. Ought to be illegal. Good catch, IN.

Pyro

[freeztar]

Originally Posted by InfiniteNow

Not 100% relevant to the thread, but I can't keep from laughing every time I see this. I shared it somewhere else recently, but if you missed it, check it out.

I saw this post at work initially (no Youtube allowed!). I finally remembered to revisit it tonight. I'm very glad I did.

"He's the dick to the dawk to the phd. He's smarter than you, he's got a science degree. Dick to the dawk to the phd. He's still smarter than you, he studied biology."

So true.