So many people say "I don't want to have kids because I don't want them to experience all the issues in the world today". What are they smoking? We literally live in the best era we've ever seen in human civilization.

Since 1800, the population of the world has multiplied six times, yet average life expectancy has more than doubled and real income has risen more than nine times. Taking a shorter perspective, in 2005, compared with 1955, the average human being on Planet Earth earned nearly three times as much money (corrected for inflation), ate one-third more c... See more