There's a lie that's been floating around since before the United States was even a decade old, but still it persists.
The world is overpopulated, they say. Having children is selfish and dangerous, and worse, bringing a new person into this world, with these problems, is simply cruel. Future generations would be better of not even being born than having to live in the world that awaits them.
It sounds pretty insane when you write it out, but it’s an idea that won’t go away because it continues to be useful to the powerful elite.
A British economist named Thomas Malthus started the population panic all the way back in 1798 when he argued that population growth would inevitably outpace food production and collapse civilization under the weight of its own people. Of course he was wrong, but the idea was too useful to die.
Paul Ehrlich picked it up in 1968, repackaged it as The Population Bomb, and predicted mass starvation and billions dead by the 1980s. That didn't happen either, but here's the thing about a lie with good ideological infrastructure behind it: it doesn't need to be right to survive. It can always just shapeshift.
Which is exactly what has happened.
It became climate anxiety, and that went over so well that became an aesthetic. The childfree lifestyle of the morally superior class. They’re unburdened, enlightened, and want you to know that truly caring about others means being as selfish as humanly possible.
Now the CDC is reporting the lowest birth rate in American history and the people who built that cultural movement are feeling like they’ve really done something.
Julian Simon spent his career pointing out what should be obvious: that human beings are the ultimate resource. We’re not a drain on the planet! We’re the very thing that solves the planet's problems!
The history of human progress isn't a story of fewer people doing more with less—it's a story of more minds, more ideas, more people building on what the generation before them figured out, compounding across centuries into the world we actually live in.
Every child born is a potential problem-solver, a potential entrepreneur, someone who might work out the thing the rest of us couldn't. The Malthusians have been wrong about this for over two centuries, and yet the hysteria persists.
Of course, this was never really an argument about data to begin with, and responding to it with data only gets you so far.
We are being sold a vision of humanity that sees human life as a net negative—a carbon footprint, a mouth to feed, a variable to be managed downward by people smart enough to know better than the rest of us.
When you understand it that way, you begin to realize the evil you’re up against.
The good news is that the truth is more powerful than the lie, and there is plenty we can do about it.
A child who grows up knowing where she comes from—who understands the history of the people who built this country and what it cost them, who sees her parents building something real and learns from watching it—is not a burden on the world. She's the world getting better.
The antidote to a culture of managed decline is a generation inoculated early against the idea that the best possible future is one where you own nothing and should be happy about it.
That inoculation happens at home. In the stories we tell and the values we're deliberately passing down.
That’s why we write books that teach the path to true human flourishing. We teach principles that are proven-true methods for human beings to reach their most peaceful and prosperous futures. Principles like self-reliance, personal responsibility, merit-based reward, entrepreneurship, and real charity.
Principles that have gone out of vogue in a doom-sick world, but are still true and good and right.
In a truly free society, you'd keep what you earned and spend it on your family without asking permission. There’d be no Tax Day, no April 15th dread, no government skimming value off the top of everything you create before you ever get to decide what to do with it.
But we don't live in that world (yet) and since the IRS is going to do what it does regardless of what we think about it, we figured we'd at least make the week a little more useful by offering our original kids book series (and workbooks) at 20% off.
Just use code TAXDAY26 at checkout to get all 14 children's books plus free activity workbooks. It’s everything you need to start teaching the ideas that will produce exactly the kind of thinkers, questioners, and doers that the death cult doesn’t account for.
Malthus was wrong in 1798.
Ehrlich got a MacArthur genius grant for being wrong in 1968.
That's how the manipulators of humanity reward people who are wrong in the right direction.
We'd rather give you 20% off books that teach your kids how to think.
— Connor
