&gt; You are vastly overestimating how many children people have.<p>Right, my post was complaining about how few children people are having. For the sake of contrast, I supposed an idealized situation where our fertility rates are comfortably above mere replacement, say 3 to 4 per woman. In such case, a woman with 4 children, each having 4 children, each having 4 children, will indeed have &gt;100 descendants.<p>&gt; The way forward is not to lean on women to do huge amounts of uncompensated labour, the return of which flows to someone else.<p>Over the past 10,000 years, we&#x27;ve determined a set of social constructs that solve this problem really well in the context of agrarian society: marriage (monogamous, enduring partnership between provider and carer), and religion (commitment to a purpose higher than yourself, because a world of individuals pursuing their own interests can only fail).<p>Anyway, note my quotes on &quot;equality&quot;: try as we might, women are not men, and nobody wins by getting women to be more like men. The ideal of equality is like communism: inspiring, misleading, and impossible. No one is equal, nor should they be.