Re:The economics of all-you-can-eat buffets
by shiroiuma on Friday December 08, 2023 @02:48AM
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> fix education so people can start their careers and adulthood earlier
People can only learn so quickly; you're not going to give people a college-level education by age 15. Modern society requires more education to be productive than past societies, but this is at odds with human biology.
> pass safe harbor laws so that parents and feel safe leaving their kids at home, or letting them take the bus
This is only a problem in the US, but birthrates are low in all developed nations.
Some economic incentives might help a bit, but they're not going to have a dramatic effect: people simply don't want to have big families any more. Kids are a lot of work (and expensive, even with those incentives), so people like to have 1 or 2 and concentrate all their attention on those. They don't want 6 kids.
- make housing cheaper
- fix education so people can start their careers and adulthood earlier
- pass safe harbor laws so that parents and feel safe leaving their kids at home, or letting them take the bus
- also economic incentives help, beef up people's social security if they have kids