If that's the 21st-century solution, then the second idea is the 19th-century solution: Ban abortion, ban birth control. Condoms, the pill, femidoms, the lot. Would this inevitably lead to a revolution? I don't know, maybe, but it would probably fix the problem.
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Still reading your tweets, but 1. Managing a low IQ subpopulation has proven to be extremely difficult
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I suspect that banning abortion & birth control wouldn't really work very well. One thing that might be effective is keeping women out of most careers.
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Why are smart people having so few kids? This is a very difficult question. I think some of it is the low value of labor vs capital (it's even worse now to divide assets among kids). Some is probably that people today are expected to spend much more time and money on each kid.
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Some of it is that people just have a lot more to do with themselves these days--there's never a shortage of entertainment. Why have kids if you're not bored?
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Take Facebook & TV away, create a *real* labor shortage, and dramatically lower social expectations on efforts to put into kids, and I expect people would have more.
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Oh, and I suppose having some identity as a people helps, too. See Israel. They breed for the Jewish people there. Whites in the US currently just don't care.
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Fair point, but managing low IQ subpopulations is at least a well-defined problem. We know what's happening, we know what the effects are, and there's a fairly obvious set of workable solutions which present themselves. We can deal with it.
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Interested to know why you don't think banning birth control would work? Seems to me that if all sex carried the possibility of children, pre-1950 moral standards might just re-emerge out of necessity. At the very least, you'd get more kids.
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People will find a way around a lack of birth control, basically. The black market would take care of it, at least.
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