Why should childcare be subsidized? It should be an expensive privilege to bear children, and we should disincentivize it. Our species’ goal isn’t to keep incre

Why should childcare be subsidized? It should be an expensive privilege to bear children, and we should disincentivize it. Our species’ goal isn’t to keep increasing the population indefinitely, but people pretend like there’s a god given right to have as many children as one desires. Rather, our goal should be to reduce population. Higher population = more consumption = more environmental strain. Plus most humans aren’t very productive economically, and that suggests we are overweight on population. So who gets to have children? Those who’ve created more societal value and proven themselves to be more capable - the best proxy we have for this, as imperfect as it might be, is economic value. Fundamentally, currency records the amount of utility others in society have ascribed to a particular individual. And so it seems fitting for rearing a child to be expensive in terms of time and money.