Cousin_Martha_Corey on Nostr: Hmm, that is food for thought. Do capitalists want to maximize the population in this ...
Hmm, that is food for thought. Do capitalists want to maximize the population in this way, though? They can always hire illegal immigrants who can demand less.
I’m not even sure that most capitalists thing this much in the long term about the net benefit of a large population. A lot of them seem to want to make money by selling the reproductive technologies that gay men and people who are being made infertile as adolescents but may want kids one day (e.g., with egg- and sperm-freezing add-ons to the “trans” package) may want. If I want to make money and don’t care about people, I may want to set up a surrogacy business instead of helping to maximize the population by natural means and planning to hire them all to pick my apples or make my widgets one day.
I’m not even sure that most capitalists thing this much in the long term about the net benefit of a large population. A lot of them seem to want to make money by selling the reproductive technologies that gay men and people who are being made infertile as adolescents but may want kids one day (e.g., with egg- and sperm-freezing add-ons to the “trans” package) may want. If I want to make money and don’t care about people, I may want to set up a surrogacy business instead of helping to maximize the population by natural means and planning to hire them all to pick my apples or make my widgets one day.