Pun intended. Humans love to procreate. They exist apparently for a singular purpose like any living organism. Just ask the Duchess of Cambridge. Be that as it may we certainly do not like to think of the consequenes. As in how many more people do we need to call it game over?
Every city and county and state and country is faced with balancing issues - those involving their budgets and its no surprise that demand has exceeded supply or at least the rate of supply. There is no forever. So while anyone can be selfish in their approach to living large I do not quite get the idea to manufacture more than one in the family.
One and done on a global scale (for those that somehow feel compelled to have that one) could bring about a new lease on life so to speak. Such experiments have been attempted on a large scale before (China being a recent example) yet it might be too little too late. Especially in light of increased life spans for the cretins still left on the planet.
Clearly like in any macro economy someone with less kids will subsidize the costs of living for someone with more. In the form of public schooling, other public resources including food stamps and shelter and unemployment insurance and medical services. That in itself could be another pointer to privatizing all forms of life sustaining services so that the reality of cost can help people make better decisions.
I attempted to read this book by author Chuck Klosterman backward to forward but it started hurting my brain so I decided to stop and do it like any other publication in the English language. Start from page 1 and move to the right. Witty, caustic and thought provoking this is a book you want to read if you believe that the status quo might, just might be wrong. At times bordering on being contrarian about most things around us it tries to zero in on the notion of what makes anything believable and certain in our minds. The fact that there is a fact itself is ironic. Something analogous to the idea that you can never predict the future because there is no future. Many books and movies have tried to play on this concept - best that I recollect (I think I am) was 'The Truman Show'. This book by Klosterman attempts to provoke the reader to at least contemplate that what they think they know may be wrong. He uses examples like concept of gravity, and how it ...
How would you get an African (or Asian or European for that matter) to agree with all this?
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