I would agree if it weren’t for the persistence of poverty in the world, the persistence of large rural populations (alhtough this is changing, most notably in Latin America and Asia, the key factor behind the decline in birthrates in those regions), and the continued stranglehold of strong religious belief, particularly in the Islamic world.
An argument could be made that those folks are irrelevant —”wards of the global state”
I haven’t reached that conclusion, but the argument could be made.
Good gracious, poverty is the natural state of man; it is only our innate sense of the future that allows us to lift ourselves from its grasp.
Too many think we must gather up all the rest similarly situated and when we try, we all slip back.