"The most decisive mark of the prosperity of any country is the increase of the number of its inhabitants." - Adam Smith in ‘The Wealth of Nations’ (1776) The way economies function, it’s hard to believe that the above statement would ever be deemed false. But what its author failed to further state or take into account was that humanity’s drive to play god and create beings other than themselves would eventually disprove the theory, causing one of the biggest paradigm shifts in economics and...