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Invent/make artificial womb. It's already feasible I think. Probably tons of money to be made. Why it's not a thing yet? Women have many options/entertainment

Invent/make artificial womb. It's already feasible I think. Probably tons of money to be made. Why it's not a thing yet? Women have many options/entertainment now and don't want to go through pregnancy especially multiple times. This coupled with fact that you have only 10 years for childbearing (before 40) and you drastically cut carrier advancement when it just started explains a lot IMO. Requiring two people to support family in XXI century feels like a scam and race to the bottom. It's mostly due to scarcity of land that you have to bid on housing (that owned by too rich people in many cases, so they literaly can manipulate market to extract rent) and all profitable activity moved to cities so you also want bw there. Make housing cheaper => I think will happen with decentralisation of energy sources and cheaper transport (tesla). Also some family friendly social policies (china?). I think remote work made a lot of people choose to live in houses instead and this might lead to some positive change in demography. But the cheapest way IMO is to just make families trendy via Hollywood (instead of this homo propaganda on Netflix)

robjan 5y ago
Who benefits from the artificial womb? The bearing of the child is much less of a disincentive than other factors like money, space and the ultra competitive school system we have in many Asian regions.
- int_19h 5y ago
  Women would benefit the most from artificial womb, given how strenuous bearing actually is, and all the health risks associated with it. Lois Bujold explored this subject - and, specifically, the socioeconomic and cultural implications - thoroughly in her Vorkosigan series, although it is referred to as "uterine replicator" there. And she is a married woman with children, so it's not exactly an abstract subject matter for her.

robjan 5y ago

Who benefits from the artificial womb? The bearing of the child is much less of a disincentive than other factors like money, space and the ultra competitive school system we have in many Asian regions.

int_19h 5y ago
Women would benefit the most from artificial womb, given how strenuous bearing actually is, and all the health risks associated with it. Lois Bujold explored this subject - and, specifically, the socioeconomic and cultural implications - thoroughly in her Vorkosigan series, although it is referred to as "uterine replicator" there. And she is a married woman with children, so it's not exactly an abstract subject matter for her.