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Maga’s era of ‘soft eugenics’: let the weak get sick, help the clever breed
(www.theguardian.com)
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If they need help figuring out how to breed, they're not clever.
Broad strokes & bad wording. I'm mainly pointing that bad wording comment at the title, and the author. It's obviously not a problem of figuring out how to breed, it's just that men are looking at divorce rates, divorce courts, alimony, child support, etc & they're saying, "Yeah...fuck all that, I want nothing to do with that." Enough of the smart, smarter ones aren't producing children. Technically you could say "that's a big problem for the country".
Hence...they need help/incentive to decide to pump out babies. A one-time $5K baby bonus is on the table, which to his credit as the author points out, is nothing. A one-time $5K payment isn't going to flip the switch for men.
Now Hungary is offering tax exemption for life, for women that have 4 or more kids. Again, there seems to be no mention of the men, I guess they can go fuck themselves....but all I'm saying is now there's an incentive!! At least for the women. Fuck taxes.
Two questions:
"it's just that men are looking at..." Do you have any evidence that men in general are doing that? Or specifically "smarter" ones?
Why do you need a specific reason to not be in a relationship, as opposed to a reason to be in one?