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Re:Economic Inequality Is Worse Than We Think (2015) by golergka on Wednesday June 07, 2017 @07:11AM (#14505190)
> What do you want to do, sterilise the poor?

Reversible sterilization for everyone by default, temporary reversal for a fee. Make people pay for externalities.

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Re:Economic Inequality Is Worse Than We Think (2015) by ngrilly on Wednesday June 07, 2017 @07:16AM (#14505229)
Are you serious?
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Re:Economic Inequality Is Worse Than We Think (2015) by golergka on Wednesday June 07, 2017 @07:29AM (#14505322)
Absolutely. Why not? Having children is a very expensive thing for the family and the society, but people can easily make this decision foolishly and then offload costs onto everyone else.

Having children is a luxury, we only need to start treating it like one.

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> Why are you focusing only on the financial aspect and ignoring the parents education, general behavior and mental health, and living conditions, safety and so on?

All these qualities (1) heavily correlate to their wealth and (2) much harder to have any objective measure of.

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Re:Economic Inequality Is Worse Than We Think (2015) by Quarrelsome on Wednesday June 07, 2017 @07:59AM (#14505512)
because we can't even yet justify forcing parents to abort downs babies due to the freedoms we allow our peoples. At least wait for this topic until we've managed that.
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Re:Economic Inequality Is Worse Than We Think (2015) by eeZah7Ux on Wednesday June 07, 2017 @07:38AM (#14505374)
Why are you focusing only on the financial aspect and ignoring the parents education, general behavior and mental health, and living conditions, safety and so on?
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