A short story by Vonnegut; a typical anti-utopia based on the control of population growth. Sad and fatalistic. The title refers to the phone number of a suicide hotline, and it reads as "to be or not to be" (get it?). Dreary, but it's still Vonnegut.
Quotes:
The painter pondered the mournful puzzle of life demanding to be born and, once born, demanding to be fruitful ... to multiply and to live as long as possible—to do all that on a very small planet that would have to last forever. All the answers that the painter could think of were grim.
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