The Baby Boom Was a Marriage Boom

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by polski-g • 3 years ago

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jjgreen• 3 years ago

Don't waste your time on this tripe. TL;DNR: The lack of babies is the fault of women not needing to marry. To fix that

- Roll back the welfare and pension state and lower income taxes (so men have more money)

- Roll back the regulatory state (so there there is less work for women)

- End Affirmative Action for women

- Defund education.

- Pronatalist monetary incentives should be targeted at married husbands, rather than mothers.

- Roll back the Sexual Revolution.

The author chooses to remain anonymous.

rhelz• 3 years ago

The central problem with analyses like these is they treat everything as a zero-sum game. For men to win, women have to lose. To increase fertility, we have to decrease individual freedom.

And--most disturbingly--we need to be globally more ignorant; quote: "The signaling model of education (see Bryan Caplan’s The Case Against Education) implies that education is mostly (~80%) a zero sum game, meaning that reducing it across the board would be a social benefit."

This mindset, where you are suspicious and resentful of any good fortune coming to your neighbor, has been obsolete since the industrial revolution. It's the mindset of a medieval peasant.

Mr. Anonymous, whoever you are who wrote this article, have the courage to put your name to your opinions. And have the courage to admit that your problems are not due to some vast cultural conspiracy, but due to your own shortcomings.

The Baby Boom Was a Marriage Boom

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