Bill Openthalt’s Comments

• Jan 10th, 2017 @ 12:42am

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  on Finland Will Give 2000 Unemployed People $590 Every Month, No Strings Attached, Even After They Get A Job
  Sufficiently scarce. As you point out, "real" resources aren't scarce in the USA, so even poor people have enough to eat, are housed and clothed, and can send their kids to school. So they procreate -- which is a subconscious affair, not a matter of consciously deciding to assure your old-age survival.
  Having an education, a job, a house, and all the paraphernalia of modern living are subconsciously attributed resource status, hence not having them is perceived as scarcity, and women (and men) feel less interested in having babies. Because children require so many resources (and so much time) to educate, by the time parents have two of them, the (subconscious) motivation to have more disappears -- until they change partners.
  Education is a veneer that doesn't change human nature, and rational thought does not provide motivation -- it merely modulates behaviour.
• Jan 9th, 2017 @ 8:39am

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  on Finland Will Give 2000 Unemployed People $590 Every Month, No Strings Attached, Even After They Get A Job
  Their kids will pay your pension.
• Jan 9th, 2017 @ 7:28am

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  It's not the education, it's the perceived resource scarcity the need to get an education, job, house, car etc. creates. Animals tend not to procreate when resources are sufficiently scarce.