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We have the technology to replace schoolchildren at a much lower cost than cars
by pluc 5y ago
We have the technology to replace schoolchildren at a much lower cost than cars
- lupire 5y agoWe don't have inexpensive cloning and rapid growth technology.
- roamerz 5y agoComment of the day. Thanks for the laugh.
- AnimalMuppet 5y agoNot all of us laugh. My first grandchild is going to be named for a childhood friend of my daughter, who was killed by a car. My daughter still hurts, 15 years later.
- renewiltord 5y agoThat is indeed sad and it’s true there’s always someone carrying trauma about something. That’s life. But it goes on. That’s why sometimes I say “kill all the apaches” and don’t even think twice about the fact that many Native American tribesmen were killed in the conquest of this nation. I think it’s sensible not to optimize to the person with the most trauma.
- robbrown451 5y agoSad story. I hope she reconsiders naming her daughter for the girl who died tragically. My sister was named for a cousin that, as a baby, fell out a window to her death, a decade or so before my sister was born. When my sister was a couple weeks old, my parents realized that they didn't want to think of that tragic story every time they said my sister's name. So they changed her name to one without the emotional baggage. There are other ways to honor someone's memory, that don't affect your relationship with your new child.
- nhumrich 5y ago> much lower cost than cars Spoken like someone who has never been a parent.
- visarga 5y agoWould that include the piano and karate lessons for the replacement kids?
- datavirtue 5y agoCoding bootcamp and Krav Maga these days.
- gruez 5y agoWhat kind of cars are we talking about? A second grader is aged 7-8. Let's round that up to 8 years to include 9 months of gestation. A model Y starts at $55k. For them to be equal in cost to "replace", the child would need to cost more than $6,875/year to raise. Can you hire a full time nanny for that price? My guess is that the amount of resources/money invested into a child at that age is in the hundreds of thousands.
- TheCoelacanth 5y agoNo way. They only seem cheaper because of people doing free labor to produce their own children. Even just the cost to get someone else to produce a newborn for you is almost enough to buy a Bentley.