It doesn't have to ONLY be inherited for the effect to be present, it's about 75% inherited, which is quite enough for a scifi premise to stand up better than most scifi plots.

You could ask him instead of playing leapfrog with yourself.

The problem is the disparity in wealth and a shrinking middle class. Rich people have no problem reproducing, I think musk is on his 14th child.

Yeah. Only rich people should have exclusive access to women.

You seem sarcastic, but biologically speaking, the children of rich parents are much more likely to be born rich themselves. Isn't that a direction we want to evolve into for humanity, given that being born poor has so many negative outcomes?

If we can all be rich, then sure.

Otherwise it's just a tool to breed average people out of the gene pool. The end result are rulers and servants.

My first two kids were born in Japan, and they were actually pretty cheap. The local city gives you some money (a few thousand) when your child is born, and day care was good and super cheap, like $10 per day because it was subsidized.

It really wasn't very expensive.

This is not true, check out this podcast: https://youtu.be/Tk-XLP4PRNs

It’s easier to immigrate to Japan than the United States. There are lots of work visas and long term residency can be pretty quick with a professional position. Many of the clerks you see in Japan for ordinary jobs are immigrants from South Asia.

This is just like a stock crashing because the quarterly profits did not exceed the very high growth expectations more than a lot, they only exceeded a little.

From what i heard from people and read online, i really don't understand how people even do that. Japanese work etiquette is bananas. But that aside, my job is somewhat high demand, but i draw the line at work hours. I work 42 hours a week and not a second longer. That opens up enough times for some hobbies, enough free time and everything. But if i had kids, most of that would be gone. So if you're a work horse, you're expected to give up everything, except work and raising kids.

This problem is not isolated to Japan. Countries all across the world are facing the same issue and have been for a number of years.

Create a shitty, miserable, society with no rights or support, and people do not want to bring children into it.... who'd guess?

Exactly its not some mysterious problem no matter how much the government and media try to frame it as one, people of the age to have kids have no time for kids and no money for kids so no wonder they have no desire for kids.

Australia had a baby bonus for a while. It was a payment you'd get for giving birth to a child. I believe it was like $3K.

me and my ex already both tested poor before we had our first baby, so we went ahead with the abortion because the dotor determined he was going to be born poor anway

biologically speaking, the children of rich parents are much more likely to be born rich themselves

Bro, what? Biologically speaking? What are you talking about?
The kids of rich people are rich because their parents are rich. They grow up to be rich because they have their parents wealth, which they either use to create more, or just stay rich.
The fact that they're rich has nothing to do with their "biology".

What are you proposing anyway? That only rich people procreate and then somehow eventually everyone will be rich? If you can do simple math like addition and subtraction, you'll realize that that scenario is not possible.

Elysium but in New Zealand

slightly worst off

worse*

But what about housing? If you live in a shoebox with no hope of getting a larger place, it's unlikely that you're gonna have kids.

Well it does get a lot more expensive when almost everybody wants to live in the same tiny square of the country
Tokyo's population will decline in 2035 according to some estimates

I think we all largely get what you're speaking to but I feel compelled to highlight that you can't breed average people out. "Rulers" and "servants" are social classes, and not "in the gene pool."

The message got a little muddled there.