Millennials ain't all bad

Dude, come on, things happen in the middle of the night. No, she was honest about it. She said she loved them but the reality is that she would have done it differently. I don’t think that is far fetched at all…

It’s really a tax on women to have kids and also work as much as men. We should give 1 year maternal leave for women only

Also pay the mothers of 0-18 year old a mother’s income.

Having children is a kind of social work, it should get paid for. The pay should be a percentage of the mother’s previous salary. So a woman with a 500k income will be paid more during maternal leave than a woman who was jobless

There you go with your socialist ways again… not even the egalitarian Maoist era China was that generous!

We need reproduction of the human beings. Now successful women have less kids and that’s alarming. We need a way to let elite women become mothers per their free will and free from monetary worries

FB has a 4 month maternal leave. It’s not that unimaginable

What’s the mechanism to encouraged child birth? Look at Japan

We bought in Pleasanton for $595k and it’s probably worth $950k now. Have not done any more investments besides some improvement on current home. Personally I would like to get into flipping homes or next home purchase I would want to be a fixer.

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So you are suggesting eugenics. This is nothing new. Hitler tried that before.

I think we should just let evolution run its own course. If nature allowed stupid people having more decendants than the smart ones, maybe that is for a reason. Maybe all we need is just a few smart people. The world could turn into a worse place if everyone becomes too smart for his own good.

Insurance doesn’t cover loss of use? And what’s the justification for HOA dues?

Oh, how timely to the discussions here…

You can’t ask for too much. The $400 per month has its limits. No HOA will cover loss of use. You’ll be glad that their insurance covered the rehab cost. If you wanted loss of use coverage might I suggest getting landlord insurance. However, even those would cover 6 months max and the rehab timeframe usually takes much longer than that.

That’s not what I said and not what I mean. The elite women are deprived of the child bearing opportunity and endure a tremendous stress. They are paying so much tax so they should get their fair opportunity for child bearing if they so wish.

Some of them love children but forego the opportunity when they are fighting for tenure positions or competing in the cruel corporate

Many elite individuals actually suffer a lot personally. They give a lot to us, what do they get? Fame and money will be gone when they die, their personal freedom is limited by the competition

I think the system works fine the way it is. We don’t need more privilege for the elite nor should we overtax them.

If you look across the world, the more access women have to education the lower the poverty rates and the lower the birth rates. It’s amazing what can happen when women have options besides being an incubator as many times as possible.

One could argue the earth already has too many humans if you believe all the climate change stuff. We need to procreate to keep the species going, but do we really need an increasing world population? All that’s happened with population growth is the highly livable areas are being over crowded more and more.

I think @BAGB’s argument is that there are not enough “elite” women procreating, which on the flip side means there are too many “non-elite” women procreating. What this really amounts to is eugenics if you’re going to ask me, even though he denied it.

Statistically speaking, the top 20% are procreating at about 1/6th the rate of the bottom 20%. That’s not good for the advancement or sustainability of society. We’re going to end up with a higher and higher percent of society that can’t produce enough output to cover their needs for survival.

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I believe that is the part of the movie when the robots come in and annihilate Tom Cruise and the humanoids…

It’s not eugenics. Actually babies for “non-elite” women could be more healthy because “elite” women are stressed out and having babies later, so their babies could be less healthy. Also “elite” women sent their babies to daycare instead, so the early childhood of the “elite” babies are not as good.

I am just speaking out for the social justice, the social justice for working women.

After all, “elite women” means “working women”. “Working people” need social justice

Steve jobs was born from a college student. Are there more geniuses born from 18-25 women? Many of those 18-25 moms are not “elite”

You’re going to get outliers. However, genetics do improve your chances both in IQ and academic performance.

“The general figure for the heritability of IQ, according to an authoritative American Psychological Association report, is 0.45 for children, and rises to around 0.75 for late teens and adults.[5][6] In simpler terms, IQ goes from being weakly correlated with genetics, for children, to being strongly correlated with genetics for late teens and adults. The heritability of IQ increases with age and reaches an asymptote at 18–20 years of age and continues at that level well into adulthood.[7] Recent studies suggest that family and parenting characteristics are not significant contributors to variation in IQ scores;[8] however, poor prenatal environment, malnutrition and disease can have deleterious effects.[9][10]”

"In all, about 62% of the individual differences in academic achievement—at least when it came to GCSE scores—could be attributed to genetic factors,

Right now, we have IQ in a bell curve, most individuals fall in the middle. So if the bottom reproduced much faster than the top, we’re going to end up with a pyramid. Is it so bad having a pyramid shape distribution? No! Most things in nature are pyramid shaped (like the food chain).

So, don’t be afraid of the pyramid and say NO to eugenics! Not everyone is going to be a rocket scientist and it is ok and normal. In fact, I can’t imagine what the world would be like if we ended up with an inverse pyramid… that’s like creating a super race of humans, which again, is what Hitler tried to do.

Their choice, nobody force them. They can choose to raise a Steve Jobs but they prefer themselves more.

Are you saying we should let them have the cake and eat it too?

Where is the baseline? Depending where you define the base case, he could be proposing reversing pro anti-eugenics.