Also, we shouldn't worry that free market babies will lead to eugenics! Sure, some eugenics will probably occur, but it'll be small-scale.pic.twitter.com/AXoFH2amZI
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Posner also blames adoption agencies for acting as rent-seekers who are trying to maintain their monopoly on the baby market.pic.twitter.com/V0CIw0Q5jf
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Of course, the problem -- in 1978, anyway -- to free market babies is that it's... difficult to assemble a pro-"sell children" political coalition.pic.twitter.com/MJIZsXMPGR
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I'm not naive -- obviously adoptions today function in broad strokes similar to the schema that Posner is arguing for here, which is in and of itself incredibly depressing.
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(And that's not even getting into the whole question of human trafficking, which Posner obviously does not address in the article but which cannot be disentangled from the foster care/adoption/"baby market" system.)
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But I would wager even today, "Let's buy and sell children on the open market!" would be a difficult political argument to make as baldly as Posner did in 1978. And remember, Posner wrote this article while a professor at the University of Chicago Law School...
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...and only six years before he was appointed to a federal circuit court by Ronald Reagan.pic.twitter.com/NOZtfdNMBF
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Posner is, incidentally, the most-cited American legal scholar of the twentieth century.pic.twitter.com/6ois6NlmAT
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To repeat, the most-cited American legal scholar of the twentieth century argued in a 1978 article that people should be allowed to buy and sell infant children on the open market.
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I don’t get it - are you saying this is shocking?
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Replying to @literalbanana @DavidAstinWalsh
this is maybe the 275th most shocking idea that posner published
5:48 PM - 11 Dec 2018
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