Hardly a day goes by without a headline lamenting the fact that the peoples of the world aren’t prolific enough in the baby-making department (with a few sub-Sahara African exceptions, but birthrates are trending down there as well). Quite a change from the population bomb worries of the 1970’s and 80’s.
I just returned from a visit to The Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, in many respects a first-world tropical paradise in a collectivist Caribbean hell-hole of a neighborhood—think Haiti and Cuba. But it’s an expensive island; with a GDP/capita less than half of the U.S.