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Well I agree that those work as well. I am afraid your post is too pithy about "does not work" to credit that bit though.

raxxorrax 5y ago
As we have seen in China, if you limit the number of children people become selective about them. In this case in regards to gender, which will develop into a large problem for the country in the future because they now have very unbalanced demographics. This will doom a lot of people to have no partner.
- toomuchtodo 5y ago
  China’s birth rate is arguably declining because basic needs (housing) and child needs (education and child care) became expensive, applying back pressure on fertility (which is why the CCP and Xi is pushing “common prosperity” hard). People are selective on children already, which I don’t see a problem with; this is a natural result of a free society with healthcare where you can selectively terminate pregnancies you don’t want. During IVF, we were offered the option to sequence the genome of candidate embryos and pick which we wanted based on traits. The future is now. If this creates cohorts without the ability to partner up, them the breaks of free will and socioeconomic forces. Population ballooned, and it will be painful as it contracts. Humanity ran up the credit card of population growth, and it will have to be paid back (socioeconomically speaking, with unrest and economic contraction) .
  - raxxorrax 5y ago
    People did abort girls more than boys so that there now are about 30% more boys than girls. Aborting girls was mainly done due to cultural and financial issues. This is nothing short of a catastrophe for the younger generation.
    - toomuchtodo 5y ago
      “What is the future owed?” is a complex issue. It’s an intergenerational compact, and the scope boundary is going to be fuzzy. I would argue future generations are owed robust human rights, a reasonably clean and non polluted environment, and the opportunity to live a purposeful life with dignity. Ensuring someone has a partner would fall out of scope. I admit we’ve sort of painted ourselves into a corner and the deleveraging is going to be a bit wild over the next few decades.
      - raxxorrax 5y ago
        I think what was taken from these generations compares to humanities darkest chapters. Fact remains that government cannot really control how people conceive children and it should not. Education can support people making individual choices.

raxxorrax 5y ago

As we have seen in China, if you limit the number of children people become selective about them. In this case in regards to gender, which will develop into a large problem for the country in the future because they now have very unbalanced demographics. This will doom a lot of people to have no partner.

toomuchtodo 5y ago
China’s birth rate is arguably declining because basic needs (housing) and child needs (education and child care) became expensive, applying back pressure on fertility (which is why the CCP and Xi is pushing “common prosperity” hard). People are selective on children already, which I don’t see a problem with; this is a natural result of a free society with healthcare where you can selectively terminate pregnancies you don’t want. During IVF, we were offered the option to sequence the genome of candidate embryos and pick which we wanted based on traits. The future is now. If this creates cohorts without the ability to partner up, them the breaks of free will and socioeconomic forces. Population ballooned, and it will be painful as it contracts. Humanity ran up the credit card of population growth, and it will have to be paid back (socioeconomically speaking, with unrest and economic contraction) .
- raxxorrax 5y ago
  People did abort girls more than boys so that there now are about 30% more boys than girls. Aborting girls was mainly done due to cultural and financial issues. This is nothing short of a catastrophe for the younger generation.
  - toomuchtodo 5y ago
    “What is the future owed?” is a complex issue. It’s an intergenerational compact, and the scope boundary is going to be fuzzy. I would argue future generations are owed robust human rights, a reasonably clean and non polluted environment, and the opportunity to live a purposeful life with dignity. Ensuring someone has a partner would fall out of scope. I admit we’ve sort of painted ourselves into a corner and the deleveraging is going to be a bit wild over the next few decades.
    - raxxorrax 5y ago
      I think what was taken from these generations compares to humanities darkest chapters. Fact remains that government cannot really control how people conceive children and it should not. Education can support people making individual choices.