Re:A.I. And Big Data Could Power a New War on Poverty?
by EGreg on Tuesday January 02, 2018 @05:35PM
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I have my own concerns, but not because of gender. Still what I want to comment on is the gendered poverty argument you made.
I have been saying something similar for a long time! The wage gap, in my opinion, is a result of choices made by women in a society that expects them to be primary caregivers.
I think that people should be paid to be caregivers for their own families. In fact, many new programs do exactly this. Still it is not reliably spread throughout the US federation.
However, my concern is that subsidizing child care actually leads to overpopulation. I am worried about the Malthusian trap.
I have been saying something similar for a long time! The wage gap, in my opinion, is a result of choices made by women in a society that expects them to be primary caregivers.
I think that people should be paid to be caregivers for their own families. In fact, many new programs do exactly this. Still it is not reliably spread throughout the US federation.
However, my concern is that subsidizing child care actually leads to overpopulation. I am worried about the Malthusian trap.
http://magarshak.com/blog/?p=286