I can only hope that this is some poor attempt at satire? This is some of the most obscenely technocratic nonsense I have ever seen in my life. There are so ma

I can only hope that this is some poor attempt at satire? This is some of the most obscenely technocratic nonsense I have ever seen in my life. There are so many things wrong here I don't even know where to start. > Math is the most valuable tool we have as humans for understanding the world around us and for improving life for all of us. It was math that brought us out of the Dark Ages This is ahistoric rubbish; the dark ages didn't exist, and even if they did, I have never seen anyone try to claim that mathematics was the beacon of enlightenment that dragged humanity out of the darkness. > We want to strongly incentivize mothers to train their children in math. No one – not schools, not other relatives, nor the government – is better placed to start training a child in math than their own mother who understands them best and can do it from the youngest possible age. Being a mother in no way qualifies you as a teacher ready to "train their children in math"; what does this even mean anyway? Teach them arithmetic? We're reasonably good at that as a society already. Bring them up on a diet of ZFC and category theory? This is unlikely to work out well, ask the French. These are of course minor points compared to the huge, glaring issue that the author clearly has no knowledge of child development whatsoever; "lack of mathematical talent" at the age of 5 in no way determines ability, at all. The notion of giving some kind of "performance bonus" to mothers for the mathematical talent of their children is absurd, since they have no impact on any innate talent whatsoever; I dread to think what kind of an impact this would have when the proposed bonus is high enough to put them in the 99th centile of income.