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> These bride costs should be allowed to climb infinitely, because it will serve as an incentive for families to have girls Wow, a market correction to counter
by rectang 8y ago
> These bride costs should be allowed to climb infinitely, because it will serve as an incentive for families to have girls
Wow, a market correction to counteract societal undervaluation of females. If it could happen that would be profoundly constructive, but attitudes about gender are durable. It's not hard to imagine that instead of letting the price rise to incentivize an increase in supply, we could see see price fixing and rationing instead: the exertion of greater control over scarce resources and backwards progress in women's rights.
- tomjen3 8y agoHow would you have price fixing and rationing? At most you could have that on the legal market, but the black market would never tolerate that, and it would only drive the (unofficial) price for women even higher. Besides a great deal of the reasons the girls were aborted or killed were because in China a parent can count only on the support of their sons, not because Chinese parents don't love their daughters.
- rectang 8y ago> How would you have price fixing and rationing? For example, by enacting laws which retard women's economic and geographic mobility, so that fewer are able to leave the local market. > not because Chinese parents don't love their daughters. Devaluation of women as a class is entirely compatible with love for individuals.