[teeray]

> Just look at for example Elon Musk and imagine if there were no need for physical pregnancy which i think is the major limiting factor here.

Time could be the great equalizer here. Spending time with your children is pretty universally accepted as beneficial, so we could make it mandatory for extrauterine births over some threshold. It could be structured such that the more extrauterine children you have, the more of your 24 hours per day must be spent with them. I’m intentionally hand-waving over specifics of what that would look like and enforcement, but I’m sure you can come up with ideas. The goal is: if you want to artificially have hundreds of extrauterine children, society will take from you all the time you could have spent building rockets and running companies.

[scotty79]

We are limiting sperm donors. I don't see why wouldn't we limit future parents for the same reasons.

[lotsofpulp]

Time isn’t a sufficient measure to serve as a proxy for quality parenting.

[ben_w]

But it is a way to limit people to a fixed maximum number of children.

Say it's a requirement for an hour per day per child — no matter how many drugs Musk takes to stay awake, he can't have more than 24 kids.

[satvikpendem]

But, lots of people have many kids thst they don't take care of. Genghis Khan is one such example, apocryphally having so many kids as to constitute 2% of the current Asian population having had him as an ancestor. So I don't quite get your point, there is no maximum.

[ben_w]

The suggestion is to change the rules, so what people currently do is irrelevant.

Genghis Khan set the rules, which is why actually changing them would be very difficult.

[satvikpendem]

The suggestion falls apart under any scrutiny, you can't force anyone to take care of their kids, if they want to, they will, and if they don't, they won't. Genghis Khan is more closer to our current ruleset than anyone currently is to this suggested rule set, he didn't set any rules, he was following the same rules as people currently do, as I mentioned in the previous sentence.

[ben_w]

> The suggestion falls apart under any scrutiny, you can't force anyone to take care of their kids, if they want to, they will, and if they don't, they won't.

I can easily imagine a punishment of forced sterilisation for non-compliance. It wouldn't be the first time human society had that as a punishment.

[EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK]

I think a lot of people living at that time would constitute 2% of the current Asian population having had him (or her) as an ancestor.