Optimism matters. Example: Doomsday scenarios try to inspire cooperation. But by promoting short-term thinking, they actually prevent cooperation If we want people to cooperate, we need to play long-term games instead of short-term ones. We need optimistic long-term thinkers.
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Having kids makes you willing to do anything, including stomp on other people’s kids’ futures to give yours a leg up. Political decay is in fact tied to neopatrimonialization, a big word for a simple idea: extract public good to favor your kids. Tragedy of commons.
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The Ottomon empire ran on the devshirme system which forbade slave civil service/military from having kids. When that system loosened and they started having kids empire fell apart
Also, “long-term thinking” is code for “right-thinking like me”. A bs authoritarian goal. - Show replies
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https://twitter.com/CBCKidsNews/status/1114247303538335744?s=20 … On the other hand kids are good foot soldiers for culture wars
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Kids are great. I was one myself once, which is something not many people know about me
I am just suspicious of fetishizing them or parenthood. People who want kids should have them. People who don’t shouldnt. Society should be set up to accommodate them. That’s it.
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