Posting this here for discussion, I want to hear others opinions.
Here is my thinking:
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You are born into an economic system which you are forced to participate in to survive. Legally you must pay taxes on transactions and land ownership – even bartering/trading has tax implications. This must be paid to the government in your countries national currency.
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This backbone of our economic system is the sale of labour for capital. If you have no wealth (accrued currency, sellable resource) you can always sell your labour. In selling labour you to reap none, or at least a reduced percentage, of the profits for your output in each transaction.
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So then, an individual born into a family with no generational wealth is becomes a worker. A worker is, within this system, essentially a product from which surplus can be extracted.
Moreover,
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Having children is inherently more expensive than not, meaning in doing so more money will exit the financial “control volume” of each family's bubble of wealth. Then, we make both the adult members (worker) and child (future worker) more dependant on the sale of labour for money.
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Under this system, we are counting on the intrinsic reward to be a sufficient motivator. Whole in previous generations, it was possible for the average person to support a large family financially under a single worker. Now it is not, and so the intrinsic reward is not sufficient to encourage reproduction.
Therefore, we should be paid for the generation of additional products, ie, reproduction.
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Billionaires like Elon complain that we aren't “doing our part” to prevent population collapse but I'm not obligated to do things for free. You can figure out how to recycle rocket boosters but you can't figure out a simple financial control volume model? Supply and demand, pay me.