Trading stuff for money: Like kidneys or blood or babies

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toomuchtodo · 5h ago

Something not mentioned: people who don't want babies, but are uncompensated for forgoing that choice. That has value they are not being compensated for.

4ndrewl · 4h ago

They get pensions paid for by economic activity of the next generation, so they're already compensated.

toomuchtodo · 4h ago

Pensions they paid into already over a lifetime of work? So they’re supposed to pay those contributions and have kids (while contributing ~two decades of uncompensated labor per child for more taxpayers to squeeze)? Ponzi gonna ponzi I suppose.

4ndrewl · 4h ago

I mean those pensions are typically invested in vehicles that provide growth to keep up with inflation etc, and that growth is largely powered by the workforce who by the time you retire are your kids. Or in your case other people's kids I guess?

toomuchtodo · 3h ago

Does that sound sustainable in a world of low or no growth with total fertility rates rapidly declining?

https://www.mckinsey.com/mgi/our-research/dependency-and-dep...

https://www.cato.org/cato-journal/spring/summer-2018/demogra...

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/children-born-per-woman

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Trading stuff for money: Like kidneys or blood or babies

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