Far-outside-Overton-window idea: family/household of e.g. 4 adults, being one stay-at-home-mom and three wage-earners. As far as I can tell, the only drawback is the 6 person-person compatibility checks, but perhaps the lower stress (no double yoke!) helps with that.
Some things about the past we've rightly moved past, like lynching, hotpants, and double-digit inflation. But strong, proud families ensuring the survival of humanity by keeping TFR>RR are not an anachronism, they are necessary for our survival. https://www.wsj.com/articles/yes-we-really-do-want-to-have-a-fifth-child-1535122603 … via @WSJ
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Huh. I worry about stability due to a) humans strong monogamous instincts (poly is not stable) and b) humans strong bio-parenting instincts: If it's two couples, working mom's kids may be sad. But it could work. Homeschool collectives could become this.
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Even further from the window: I didn't say the working m̶o̶m̶ had kids. Childcare scales such that e.g. 2+3 does worse than 0+5 on several criteria. Specialization FTW! Put differently, it's not insane to cut "woman" into two sets of social roles (genders?) ("queen"—"worker"?).
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I totally agree on splitting women into earners / parents. Can you elaborate on the structure a bit more? Is this society wide (half of families DINK, half worker/parent)? Or do pairs of couples join up?
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The latter, because not everybody would like this arrangement (e.g. not-Mormon religious people). And most of the point is in having a stay-at-home-mom in the household—a DINK household is financially brittle, still has the double yoke, and has no community-building valence. 1/2
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Furthermore, more than two adults per household would be a good deal even with a sane, undistorted housing market. AFAIK even DINK households have about as large living/dining rooms, kitchens, etc. as couples with children. (Maybe it's not so in the US.) 2/2
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Inflation has made it tougher to have a lot of children. Back in the day with a strong dollar wives didn't even have to work.
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I would put it on broader economic changes than inflation, but yes, for a variety of reasons (economic, social, spiritual) it is much harder to have a one-working-parent family today. Which should be treated as an existential threat, but isn't.
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We've moved past hotpants? Are you really so old that you've never seen a Nicki Minaj video?
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Yes, I in fact am that old. My age is the answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything.
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Sounds like you're at the stage of maximizing grandchildren. Could also do mentoring work, lead Girl Scout troops, etc - there are other ways besides spawning to contribute to the next gen.
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Didn't your grandfather ultimately agree with Hayek and wasn't his monetary policy saying how money growth should correlated with GDP growth? Both views are agreeable with eachother.
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Setting aside questions of optimal rate of inflation being zero vs GDP growth rate, since we don't & won't have double digit real GDP growth, we definitely shouldn't have double digit inflation.
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Check your inbox, you might like the subject I wrote on. I think you could get good marketshare in that market because of seasteading. People would associate you with the two and the marketing advantage would occur because of the correlation.
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