I’m someone who doesn’t have children and doesn’t plan to, but I agree with pretty much everything in this post. I do have reservations on how to go about justly raising someone’s taxes now because of now-irreversible decisions they made not to have children in the past before the policy existed, but am all in favor of lump sums paid by future taxes, including higher taxes on me personally.
Is it sad I have higher expectations that society will solve the really hard technological problem of aging in the next couple of decades than the economically-should-be-straightforward problem of fertility gaps?
There is a difference between these two problems: aging is possibly solved by regular market forces because people have a willingness to pay for buying a solution for themselves.
I’m someone who doesn’t have children and doesn’t plan to, but I agree with pretty much everything in this post. I do have reservations on how to go about justly raising someone’s taxes now because of now-irreversible decisions they made not to have children in the past before the policy existed, but am all in favor of lump sums paid by future taxes, including higher taxes on me personally.
Is it sad I have higher expectations that society will solve the really hard technological problem of aging in the next couple of decades than the economically-should-be-straightforward problem of fertility gaps?
There is a difference between these two problems: aging is possibly solved by regular market forces because people have a willingness to pay for buying a solution for themselves.
Exactly