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I don't see how the problem would arise. Genes replicate by increasing the number of people. Memes (of the kind we'd like) replicate by infecting existing people. So by diverting human efforts from genes to this kind of memes, we reduce population growth.
When non-DNA inheritance gets better at using the available resources, a likely result is more effective competition for resources with existing organisms - leaving many affected humans unemployed and dependent on alms from the government.
It is true that population growth would probably be reduced in this kind of scenario - since usually the government pays the unemployed just enough to exist on.