Thank you for writing this out. Even though I knew about the bundling/unbundling idea, it would have never struck me as something to apply to human mating. It’s a pretty interesting way of looking at the knobs that are available to us in this domain and trying to figure out potential futures.
perhaps kids becoming earning machines or cash flow positive, like their 18th century counterparts.
This reminds me of the recent ACX book review on “How Children Fail” in the sense that, an arrangement like this would give children more autonomy than they have now, which may prove a huge improvement over the education system that tries squish kids into uniformity in some high-modernist ideal.
Thank you for writing this out. Even though I knew about the bundling/unbundling idea, it would have never struck me as something to apply to human mating. It’s a pretty interesting way of looking at the knobs that are available to us in this domain and trying to figure out potential futures.
This reminds me of the recent ACX book review on “How Children Fail” in the sense that, an arrangement like this would give children more autonomy than they have now, which may prove a huge improvement over the education system that tries squish kids into uniformity in some high-modernist ideal.