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It mostly is. But sitting on your soles does change the proportion of your feet. I (and I think most other people) can't do that because my lower leg is too long.
Do you have a cite for that? I know plenty of people of various heights who can sit on the soles of their feet, it just uses muscles that most westerners don't exercise. I'm also pretty skeptical that it would affect your height in any way to do it regularly.
Why stop at 50 cm? In the long term, if the children of humanity continue to inhabit physical bodies, there's no need for them to be larger than a millimetre in size. Plenty of room at the bottom. The benefits of reduced resource use don't stop on Earth. A 1 kg payload ought to be sufficient for an interplanetary or interstellar voyage.
This is a laughably stupid idea. Trying to stay ahead of geometric growth is always a losing battle. Instead of turning humans to Smurfs, why don't we try to control the birth-rate instead.