From: John Marlow (johnmarlow@gmx.net)
Date: Mon Jan 29 2001 - 21:12:17 MST
On 29 Jan 2001, at 15:18, Samantha Atkins wrote:
What about the
> world, by local beliefs coming rapidly, where only the top of the
> intelligence pool can be gainfully employed (with a few service
jobs to
> one side)? Eventually there may not be anything a given worker
can be
> trained to do that pays a living wage and there may be no region
that
> requires such workers. What then?
>
**Very bad things.
jm
> Michael Lorrey wrote:
>
> > What I'd do is grant birth licenses based on the average education of
> > the couple. If the average is high school graduation, they get one kid.
> > For every two additional years, they get another kid. Since the data
> > shows that child bearing goes down with increasing education levels,
> > this should cause average family size to drop to between 2-3 kids per
> > couple rather quickly.
>
> Great. We pack college classrooms with breeders. The average has
> dropped to ZPG in most western developed countries already.
>
> > If you don't want this to become a dictated law, then you need to
> > promote social policies that engineer this result. For example, I'd only
>
> You did not cover why the result is actually so desirable as to be
> mandatory.
>
> > grant welfare to individuals and families where the parent, or parents,
> > are in school, either vocational or college, and unemployment coverage
> > that goes beyond 6 months would mandate that the worker engage in
> > retraining classes and agree to move to a region of lower unemployment.
>
> Uh huh. This assumes a "normal world" of job opportunity distributed
> across most intelligence levels of the population. What about the
> world, by local beliefs coming rapidly, where only the top of the
> intelligence pool can be gainfully employed (with a few service jobs to
> one side)? Eventually there may not be anything a given worker can be
> trained to do that pays a living wage and there may be no region that
> requires such workers. What then?
>
> - samantha
>
John Marlow
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