Around 5,000 years ago, Atrahasis (Chapter 10 of Clever but Clueless that Overpopulation Drives Slavery, Genocide, and War) taught golden-ruled ways including limiting conceptions to end the problems of “too-many.” His goal was a better future for all people.

Since then, Socrates, Ben Franklin, and many visionaries from many great cultures and religions (other chapters of Clever but Clueless) have sought ways to make our human prospects brighter. One way is to discourage conception of children faster than opportunities.

Is it time to conceive children no faster than good jobs? Do we owe less to the living and to all yet to come?