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It's a tragedy that rich people spend money on silly
luxuries
like yachts and airplanes when there are kids in need all
over the world.
Specifically, kids in need of being created and raised to
adulthood.
For a modest fee of $30,000 to $1.5 million+,
(depending
on the desired citizenship,
socioeconomic status at
adulthood, genetics, etc. for the child,) this company
will
help out a rich person by collecting a genetic payload
from
the rich person, hiring an egg or sperm donor and
surrogate mother to birth the child, and running an
education infrastructure to raise this child to adulthood.
The rich person just needs to provide a sample and pay
the bill up-front, and the rest of the progeny-creation
process is taken care of.
I envision an Uber-like app that vets and matches rich
people, donors/surrogates, and nannies/teachers, and
collects a small finder's fee.
This service helps everyone by utilizing un-used capacity
(financial, genetic, biological, and parenting capacity)
to
create additional children for the mutual enjoyment and
benefit of everyone involved, and also allows everyone to
focus on the part of the child-creation and -rearing
process
that best fits their interests and abilities.
This business would also help fix the serious issue of
falling birth-rates in rich countries.
Consequences of Supply/Demand
https://vernonnemit...1/19/economics-102/
As mentioned in an annotation. [Vernon, Sep 03 2015]
Parkinson's Law
https://en.wikipedi...i/Parkinson%27s_law
As mentioned in an annotation. [Vernon, Sep 03 2015]
[link]
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The Idea contains several bad assumptions, such as the
notion that falling birth-rates are a "problem". But let's
start from the top. |
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Paying the money up-front need not be as large as the
amounts indicated, because it won't all be spent at
once; the Idea specifically states it is to be spent long-
term. That means the portion not immediately spent
could be invested (which is what most rich folks do with
their money), and the returns on the investment could
pay for some of the expenses. The total amount of
investment-return could therefore reduce the up-front
cost. |
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Next, many rich folks are not interested in having lots of
children, simply because that is a sure way to shrink
their fortunes --and such shrinkage is the last thing they
want! |
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Next, consider the Law of Supply and Demand --
actually, I've already done that elsewhere (see link), so
I need not repeat it here. Basically, the rich want
OTHER people, no matter how poor, to have lots of
children, and they want those other people also to pay
for what they-the-rich want. |
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Next, the "rich nations" have lifestyles such that if the
whole world was equal to them, we would need at least
2 more whole Planet Earths for physical resources
(copper, oil, etc.) to support those lifestyles. This is
evidence that the world is actually overpopulated, and
fewer people are needed, not more. |
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Finally, the "problem" of low birth rate exists partly
because old folks often need help from young folks, and
as the old/young ratio increases with fewer births,
many older folks will be lacking necessary help. But
Japan is working to solve the problem with robots. We
should expect that task to be successful in the long run. |
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Another part of the "problem" is fewer taxes --one
reason the Soviet Union went bankrupt was because its
taxpayer base wasn't large enough to support its
expenditures. DUH! Obviously the fix is fewer
expenditures! See "Parkinson's Law" for one aspect of
the root of a rather generic government-expenditure
problem. |
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//This business would also help fix the serious
issue of falling birth-rates in rich countries.// |
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Uh, just no. In case you hadn't noticed, there are
about seven billion humans alive at present.
Falling birth rates is just about the only glimmer of
hope for the future. |
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If you want to do something worthwhile, distribute
the money to provide adequate contraception and
education in the developing world. And improve
healthcare and social support so that people don't
have to produce six kids in order to ensure that
three are alive to take care of them in their old
age. |
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// to provide adequate contraception and education in the developing world // |
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Wouldn't it be better just to supply more guns and ammunition ? |
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Educate women. Look it up. That's the proven way to
decrease population growth in all cultures. A woman who's
educated delays birthing, because it takes time to get
educated, and they take more years to work professionally
to get the return on the education. |
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As for this idea, I mean we already have free sperm banks.
Why would a rich person choose to have his seed spread
with no involvement PLUS a big payment? |
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Naw, the problem is everybody else having kids. Mine are
little angels, and I want my progeny to wipe out the rest
and then have biblical epics written by them about me as
the father of a nation... |
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