"What if baby product companies created pronatalist advertising to ensure a stream of future customers?" wonders Elaine Ou. https://elaineou.com/2018/09/13/the-first-hit-is-free/ …pic.twitter.com/rklbh09gVX
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This is unbearably cruel to a whole lot of people, including many who are blameless even under the premises behind the idea. But I think the underlying premise is awfully condescending, oblivious, and misguided, too. Don't do this.
Unfortunately, it fixes itself by eliminating an entire culture of amazing people - intelligent urban Western elites - which I come from and care about. I'll share the future with just Mormons and Amish if need be, but I'll at least try to convince others to join us .
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As I've said elsewhere, human cultures mix too much for "competition with Mormons and Amish" to be a question just of competing exponential growth curves. Many children of cultural outlier groups will move into the mainstream. We can coexist and all contribute to human survival.
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Think statistically. Suppose there were a virus that rendered 25% of Democrats sterile. Yes, more Democrats can be recruited/converted. Yes, political party is only partly heritable. But while you are pointing out the correlations are not 1.0, your party loses every election.
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