ACE System

🌂 or earlier?

If we could somehow solve the care and investment issue—say, by the discovery of magical brownies who loooove taking care of kids and gladly work for a saucer of milk—then the actual production of kids would not be hard. Pregnancy is a pain but not a bad tradeoff, if the kid isn't also a huge time and money suck. And if society still can't make enough kids, surrogacy is a known thing that could be publicly funded.

🌂 C'mon!

Many women who are not currently pregnant yet could carry a viable pregnancy to term would surely be willing to become pregnant for the right price, which likely far underbids the marginal cost to develop an unknown futuristic technology that may not even be feasible to begin with or be delivered in the next century, such as exowombs. And this economic solution proceeds entirely from voluntary contracts, without violating anyone's human rights, potentially also injecting large amounts of wealth from OECD nations into the global south. Really the only reason no one has tried this yet is because they don't consider it a higher priority to produce more babies than to find people to care for them. Also possibly because I came up with it less than a year ago while ogling a picture of Robert Nozick.

🌂 and so the argument goes, they would find it less weird once we invent the baby table that prints out babies

If we could somehow solve the care and investment issue—say, by the discovery of magical brownies who loooove taking care of kids and gladly work for a saucer of milk—then the actual production of kids would not be hard. Pregnancy is a pain but not a bad tradeoff, if the kid isn't also a huge time and money suck. And if society still can't make enough kids, surrogacy is a known thing that could be publicly funded.

🌂 C'mon!

Many women who are not currently pregnant yet could carry a viable pregnancy to term would surely be willing to become pregnant for the right price, which likely far underbids the marginal cost to develop an unknown futuristic technology that may not even be feasible to begin with or be delivered in the next century, such as exowombs. And this economic solution proceeds entirely from voluntary contracts, without violating anyone's human rights, potentially also injecting large amounts of wealth from OECD nations into the global south. Really the only reason no one has tried this yet is because they don't consider it a higher priority to produce more babies than to find people to care for them. Also possibly because I came up with it less than a year ago while ogling a picture of Robert Nozick.

🌂 and so the argument goes, they would find it less weird once we invent the baby table that prints out babies

it's kind of insane how awesome Getimians are gonna be once they get their book

If we could somehow solve the care and investment issue—say, by the discovery of magical brownies who loooove taking care of kids and gladly work for a saucer of milk—then the actual production of kids would not be hard. Pregnancy is a pain but not a bad tradeoff, if the kid isn't also a huge time and money suck. And if society still can't make enough kids, surrogacy is a known thing that could be publicly funded.

🌂 C'mon!

If we could somehow solve the care and investment issue—say, by the discovery of magical brownies who loooove taking care of kids and gladly work for a saucer of milk—then the actual production of kids would not be hard. Pregnancy is a pain but not a bad tradeoff, if the kid isn't also a huge time and money suck. And if society still can't make enough kids, surrogacy is a known thing that could be publicly funded.

🌂 ...my brain just said "again", but I don't think this is a repeat episode...?