Re: (tranlation) Apartment Women by Gu Byeong-Mo

On Wed, 19 Mar 2025 17:31:58 -0400, Cryptoengineer
<petertrei@gmail.com> wrote:

On 3/19/2025 1:17 PM, James Nicoll wrote:

<snippo -- more kids needed!>

While childbirth is not exactly trivial, one requires far more resources
to turn the resulting infant into a functional adult. That's a detail
many pro-natalists prefer to ignore.

>
Absolutely agree - subsidizing just pregnancy and birth isn't
going to be very effective.
>
Throwing out numbers to give an idea of the magnitudes I think would
be effective: something like a $60k payment for a birth (that's the low
end for surrogate mothers), and say, $30,000/year payment for each
child in the house. (approx the cost/year to raise a child in MA). So
a family with 3 kids would be getting $90k, around the US median
household income, plus employment income, if any.

Well, that's one way to get to a Guaranteed Basic Income.

/JoJo Rabbit/ includes a female Nazi who, at a summer camp for kids,
tells the girls that she will teach them how to make beautiful Aryan
boys for the Reich. She has done it, she says, an <incredible number>
of times.

I forget the number. But I recall thinking at the time that it was
large enough that, if she had started when Hitler came to power, she
would have been producing more than one per year.

My understanding, however, is that such programs did exist in Hitler's
Germany.
--
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"