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Poverty (within our current socioeconomic system) is an almost impossible problem to solve. If you give individuals the wrong kind of help, you will make the pr
by llamataboot 11y ago
Poverty (within our current socioeconomic system) is an almost impossible problem to solve. If you give individuals the wrong kind of help, you will make the problem worse. (citation needed). If poor africans keep having 10 children each, there is no way they will ever get out of poverty. (Raising standards of living is pretty much guaranteed to reduce the fertility rate, you have your rate of causation backwards on this one). The root problem is education. African children are not being nurtured as well as they could be because there are too many of them. (Sorry, but this is a borderline racist statement, I'm not saying you intended that to be the case, just that it is). I think the one child policy in China has has been a key to its success over the past 20 years - It allowed parents to focus all their resources on that one child and allowed them to get the best education possible. (So you think possibly one of the most authoritarian policies in recent history is the answer?)
- nilkn 11y agoI don't think the statement was borderline racist. It's fair to point out that a certain group has exhibited certain statistical tendencies (large numbers of children in this case), so long as that tendency is not attributed explicitly to race itself (which it wasn't here). I don't see how we could ever have a productive discussion on issues like this if just straightforward observations are torn down as racist. I do agree with your point that most likely better education will lead to fewer children rather than fewer children leading to better education. However, clearly that's easier said than done.