Re:Why paying women to have more babies won't work
by tuatoru on Friday May 24, 2024 @02:23PM
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> Men relied on women to perform them, as part of keeping them out of other occupations.
This sounds rather blank-slatist, the idea that there are no psychological differences between men and women.
No one believes that any more. There are solid evolutionary reasons for the differences, and plenty of evidence from places like Sweden, where despite heavy pressure and highly smoothed paths into high-paying technical fields, women overwhelmingly choose people-oriented work.
Things like relationships and community wellbeing should be human values, not female values. Men relied on women to perform them, as part of keeping them out of other occupations.
The human race won't go extinct as long as the replacement rate is above zero. Society and culture will indeed have to adapt to the altered age demographics, but that doesn't strike me as a bad thing. Certainly better than placing the onus on all women to maintain an arbitrary population size.