I was about to post something similar, although I don’t have kids myself.
In some sense, I’m already doing that. For the cost of raising three kids, I could have saved something like 250 statistical lives. So I don’t know that our unwillingness to torture a loved one is a good argument against the math of the dust specks.
Huh. That’s … a pretty compelling argument against having kids, actually.
Hmm, the microeconomics of outsourcing child production to countries with cheaper human-manufacturing costs… then we import them once they’re university aged? You know you’ve got a good econ paper going when it could also be part of a dystopia novel plot.
I was about to post something similar, although I don’t have kids myself.
Huh. That’s … a pretty compelling argument against having kids, actually.
Hmm, the microeconomics of outsourcing child production to countries with cheaper human-manufacturing costs… then we import them once they’re university aged? You know you’ve got a good econ paper going when it could also be part of a dystopia novel plot.