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> Nor will we have children This is no way to run a civilization.
by carsongross 10y ago
> Nor will we have children
This is no way to run a civilization.
- ThrustVectoring 10y agoThere's no moral obligation to help run civilizations.
- drdeadringer 10y agoHow might I be incentivised to have children?
- carsongross 10y agoIf I were in charge I would institute a basic income for all citizens over the age of 18 (no additional money for children) and would make each child someone had a significant tax break against income. People who could afford them would be incentivized to have them.
- ido 10y agoWhy incentivize people to have children when there is no shortage of them?
- peterbraden 10y agoActually, in many Western countries there is, much of Europe for example. Sustainable demographics are why there are subsidies for having children in Italy for example.
- ido 10y agoI live in Germany, the country with the lowest birth rate in the world. The population is still slowly growing due to immigration. Even once the developing countries reduce fertility below replacement (which will not happen for a long time yet) with increasing life spans and improving medicine the world's population will still continue growing(slow growth is still projected in the year 2100), then stagnate and then one day very far from today slowly decline... but it will still take centuries to reach the population levels of the early 20th Century (only reached 2 billion people in 1927). In the meanwhile we have too many, not too few, people around.
- carsongross 10y agoIdiocracy.