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Historically, having many kids was done to compensate for a high infant mortality rate. Today however, having less than 2 children per couple (below the replacement level) is a sign that people are forced to make an impossible choice i.e. travel the world / make enough to buy a house, or have a family. Why can't a young woman or man build their life/wealth respectively while having children?
Why is it something we put off?

The classic academic argument is that as we get more wealthy, we want to pursue the arts, the sciences, the high life, instead of changing diapers at 3 in the morning, deal with teen drama or even college crazy when they drop their college courses and decide to start a company or become a rock star.
But if we have to sacrifice something as canonical as having kids and raising the next generation just to have high powered careers, isn't that the surest sign we are in a skewed system?
I say it is.

It won't be sustainable and thank God for Bitcoin.
I believe we currently have the technology to populate the moon and such a high level of technological skills will not be achieved by having a smaller number of people. More people = more specialization hence more skills.
Less people but More AI = more dopamine binges in front of screens, poor health, poor understanding of people and while women today are angry about having to compete with sex workers, wait when they have to deal with low testosterone zombie-screen men who can barely engage her desire even if she was full on naked.

Interesting also is what will happen to sex workers, call girls, escorts, consorts, etc.
I think as we get more hyperbitcoinized, alt sexuality people such as girlie boys and boyish girls get their own self sustained circles where they don't have to advertise their groups identity for weaponized political gain.
But in the heterosexual community this will happen as well to rakes, playboys, escorts and consorts.
They will move within their circles without destroying other people's lives. They could invite you to take their adventure, but they will likely have better morals about it and not weaponize jealousy and relationship drama like they do today.

Of course, it all can't be this clean. But this is the result of a system where hard work is understood as the norm (it never went away. The machines helped reduce it but it remained) and nobody thinks they can get a quickie with some hottie and not have it influence their lives and even those they have sworn to stand by before God and their community.

Women shall also see better that they have been manipulating men's bodies. While a woman's body is objectified directly during a brash money-sex transaction, a man's body is objectified indirectly as he has to put his body through such misery in the fiat world of work, just to get one night of loveless, possibly diseased sexual pleasure.
It is a real tragedy what fiat systems have done to men as well as women especially in this petro-dollarized era.

Bitcoin fixes it all. Long live Bitcoin.

My hope lies in the incorruptible truth that the Bitcoin block chain can add to people's lives. So much of human behavior is based on delusional thinking that this simple fact of a certain amount of Bitcoin existing and owned by a person can be the rock people need. Attention. Good will. Ethics. Bitcoin.

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Is this a critique or praise?
It is not delusional thinking when one believes that a certain amount of Bitcoin existing can anchor the world. That would be like calling the human belief in a certain ethical code itself a delusion.
Fixing the monetary supply is a literal fixing of the economic rock upon which humanity can grow a robust economy towards the stars.
Maybe 21 million is not the perfect number. But for now, it is and it sharpens attention, good will and ethics.
To digress, if you look closely, all human systems have a code that is not changed on a whim. The English language has a dictionary and you can't simply decide that "this word which is foundational to the entire code is wrong". Ethics itself is coded by reciprocity of good, tolerance, positive sum thinking, etc.

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