3 ms·
In some Eastern countries (and at least one Western state) there's a simple solution: You make an exact correspondence between how much wealth you have and how
by mynameishere 19y ago
In some Eastern countries (and at least one Western state) there's a simple solution: You make an exact correspondence between how much wealth you have and how many wives you take. Thus, you have so many children that none of them can become especially wealthy.
In most of the Western world, there was a similar fix: Primogeniture. The first boy would get all the money, and the younger ones would have nothing.
- pg 19y agoBill Gates would die of exhaustion first.
- dcurtis 19y agoBut he'd have an army to take over after him!
- Tichy 19y agoOr fall back to in vitro fertilization. Come to think about it, wouldn't that law (the richer you are, the more children you are required to have) fix a lot of problems? Inequality, dumbing down of society...
- maurycy 19y agoSounds like enacted regression to the average. ;) But what you miss is that socies are now far less stable than they were. In the longer long no one is longer able to have hundren, to say nothing about few thousands, like this czar from China.
- vitaminj 19y agoSo would laws advocating eugenics, euthanasia of old people and cripples, sterilization of dumbasses, etc. Doesn't mean they're good ideas.
- Tichy 19y agoSure, I was only joking ;-)
- pchristensen 19y agoThere are no US states where that is legal or encouraged. Take it from someone who was born in the one you're probably thinking of.