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This seems to be a big issue. e.g. it seems Israel has permanently shifted to the right because of the excessive growth of the (societally/economically) useless ultra-orthodox population.

While other people have to spend their lives working they can spend their reading their boom and having dozens of children because of government subsidies.

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Yes of course religious people only have kids because they just want those government subsidies, not because God told us to "be fruitful and multiply"

I never said that’s the reason why they do that. It’s possibly one of the reasons why they can, though.

Also I was almost exclusively talking about a specific group in Israel:

50% or so of ultra-Orthodox men in Israel do not work (instead they spend their days studying religious texts or something…). They have massive amounts of children and are supported by the state and/or their wives (78% of whom do have jobs).

For reference, there's 16% Ultra-Orthhodox follower in Israel (which itself has a popultion of 9millopn).

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