I’m not sure which one you mean because there’s a few examples of that, but he still has not maximized even for quite generous interpretations of ‘maximize’: none of those doctors so much as lobbied their fellow doctors to use him as their exclusive sperm donor, for example, nor offered to bribe them; none of the doctors I’ve read about appear to have spent any money at all attempting to get more offspring, much less to the extent of making any dent in their high doctor-SES standard of living (certainly no one went, ‘oh, so that is what he had secretly devoted his life to maximizing, we were wondering’), much less paid for a dozen surrogacies with the few million net assets they’d accumulate over a lifetime. You can’t excuse this as a typical human incompetence because it requires only money to cut a check, which they had.
On further reflection, I changed my mind (see title and edit at top of article). Your comment was one of the items that helped me understand the concepts better, so just wanted to add a small thank you note. Thank you!
The surrogacy example originally struck me as very unrealistic cause I presumed it was mostly illegal (it is in Europe but apparently not in some States of the US) and heavily frowned upon here for ethical reasons (but possibly not in the US?). So my original reasoning was that you’d get in far more trouble for applying for many surrogates than for swapping out sperm at the sperm bank.
I guess if this is not the case then it might have been a fetish for those doctors? I’m slightly confused about the matter now what internal experience put them up to it if they’d eschew surrogates while they are legal and socially acceptable in parts of the US.
The other options just seem like relatively risky endeavors that are liable to blow up their succesful sperm swapping projects.
I’m not sure which one you mean because there’s a few examples of that, but he still has not maximized even for quite generous interpretations of ‘maximize’: none of those doctors so much as lobbied their fellow doctors to use him as their exclusive sperm donor, for example, nor offered to bribe them; none of the doctors I’ve read about appear to have spent any money at all attempting to get more offspring, much less to the extent of making any dent in their high doctor-SES standard of living (certainly no one went, ‘oh, so that is what he had secretly devoted his life to maximizing, we were wondering’), much less paid for a dozen surrogacies with the few million net assets they’d accumulate over a lifetime. You can’t excuse this as a typical human incompetence because it requires only money to cut a check, which they had.
On further reflection, I changed my mind (see title and edit at top of article). Your comment was one of the items that helped me understand the concepts better, so just wanted to add a small thank you note. Thank you!
The surrogacy example originally struck me as very unrealistic cause I presumed it was mostly illegal (it is in Europe but apparently not in some States of the US) and heavily frowned upon here for ethical reasons (but possibly not in the US?). So my original reasoning was that you’d get in far more trouble for applying for many surrogates than for swapping out sperm at the sperm bank.
I guess if this is not the case then it might have been a fetish for those doctors? I’m slightly confused about the matter now what internal experience put them up to it if they’d eschew surrogates while they are legal and socially acceptable in parts of the US.
The other options just seem like relatively risky endeavors that are liable to blow up their succesful sperm swapping projects.