From: Olga Bourlin (fauxever@sprynet.com)
Date: Tue May 28 2002 - 08:18:55 MDT
From: "Phil Osborn" <philosborn2001@yahoo.com>
> >Olga Bourlin (fauxever@sprynet.com) wrote on Fri May
> 24 2002 - 10:54:31 MDT:
>
> Maybe a child of one of those breeders will one day
> find a cure for - cancer? aging? senility? - so you
> may yet benefit. In all likelihood you're already
> benefiting. If you think about the innovations and
> inventions of which you are the beneficiary - all
> produced by other people's children - it may help you
> to appreciate how we're all in this together.
>
> At least children are real. What gets me is the tax
> break given to religious institutions - good money
> going to fantastical supercreatures and good real
> estate going to the storytellers perpetuating the
> "invisible friend(s)" myths. Where are the mental
> health professionals? (Sadly, some of them frequent
> the House of the Invisible themselves.) Where's the
> outrage? >
>
> Olga, Olga, Olga - you seem like such an intelligent
> person. Please read some economics - Bastiat is a
> good start, but Rothbard, or even David Friedmann.
> There is this thing called in econ101 "the broken
> window fallacy." ...
Whoa, whoa, whoa Philo. I've read all of the books you mentioned. I still
believe in public schools (that was the substance of the complaint in the
original post to which I was responding). It's much worse than that,
actually. I think subsidized public education needs to start at a few
months - as in daycare.
> Your argument for children is just another permutation
> on this. There are OTHER things to put resources into
> besides more children. In a rational economy,
> children would be produced to match the rate of
> marginal return, assuming good information is
> available to the producers and they act rationally in
> general.
>
> As for the idea that somehow having more children is
> so important that we have to subsidize it ...
I never said anything about subsidizing spawning. I do think education is
so important we need to subsidize it.
Olga
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