>The sheiks, emirs, sultans, pashas, beys, and deys, suck off all the wealth beyond just enough to keep their people alive and breeding.
You really don’t know what you’re talking about. They made some much cash the welfare alone was in the 50k range per family in a lot of Muslim nations. The wealth has only started to decline as they’ve bred themselves to the point where it’s getting harder and harder to spread the wealth.
>More prosperous societies have more “liberated women” as in Rome.
Athens and Sparta don’t follow this model. Athens was massively richer than Sparta. But it was Sparta with their liberated women that had the problems with birthrates, not Athens.
Germany was the second country in Europe to industrialize after England and thus was quite rich. Their birth rate was very high because their women were unliberalized until they lost WW1. After WW1 Germany become very poor and had very liberated women. The birthrate dropped like a rock and never recovered to pre 1914 levels.