what if instead of being evil eugenicists we just paid people not to have excesses of children
@icedquinn Most models are predicting a shortage of kids in the US and similar things seem to happen when developing countries start educating women.
@swiley letting women work has had.. complicated ramifications.
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@icedquinn The alternative is sufficiently unpleasant and women tend to like the empowerment.
@swiley as an example of absolute madness that should give anyone pause: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/perk-facebook-apple-now-pay-women-freeze-eggs-n225011
@swiley we can buffer the existential crisis that is a negative birth rate, for a time, kind of. non-bonded women *tend* towards heavy depression in later age and younger men *tend* towards violent uprisings in these conditions.
@icedquinn The solution to this is better social mobility which is where the US is failing now (especially for men.)
pair bonding largely isn't happening, for one. and women have the unique problem that putting off birthing to satisfy corpo demands has a much harder time limit than when men do it.