My schadenfreude is approaching a million right now. /got 8.5 hours of sleep last night. I'm actually being serious here, but zooming-out and looking at the wo

My schadenfreude is approaching a million right now. /got 8.5 hours of sleep last night. I'm actually being serious here, but zooming-out and looking at the world from the perspective of rational self interest, and hence preserving my own health and sanity: shouldn't the government PAY you to raise kids? Since I believe we have mostly overridden our evolutionary instincts I don't really see why people chose to procreate at all, unless for evolutionary or cultural means which under certain worldviews are considered irrational, as they minimize the freedom of the individual and maximize the role of the children/government/religion. Either way, children are still de-facto property of the government and in one case http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kibbutz_Communal_child_rearing_and_collective_education http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kibbutz_Communal_child_rearing_... entirely collectivized, which didn't work.