Re: So people are really horrible at maximizing number of their offspring in our modern environment with birth control and limitless resources.
Which people? There are about 6,783,421,727 people on the planet—there has evidently been lots of highly-successful baby-making recently by many members of the population.
Similarly, resources are not “limitless”. With limitless resources, winning the lottery would make no difference. Most humans have always been resource-limited.
Re: So people are really horrible at maximizing number of their offspring in our modern environment with birth control and limitless resources.
Which people? There are about 6,783,421,727 people on the planet—there has evidently been lots of highly-successful baby-making recently by many members of the population.
Similarly, resources are not “limitless”. With limitless resources, winning the lottery would make no difference. Most humans have always been resource-limited.