alt Hacker News> Your great great grandparents didn't effectively get fined for having each child. It was quite the opposite.
What are you talking about?
> Your great great grandparents didn't effectively get fined for having each child. It was quite the opposite.
What are you talking about?
I would assume that they mean your great great grandparents benefited greatly by having kids because it brought in more labor while it mostly just cost food. These days there are tons of extra costs to having kids that didn't exist in the past and none of those costs are offset by their labors.