[Kivern7]

Nobody thinks like this. Not a single intelligent, successful, prosperous woman is going to be even slightly motivated to have a baby over the long-term viability and credibility of fiat currency, whereas I personally know of two people who only exist because their welfare-dependent mother impulsively took advantage of a government cash bonus by getting knocked up by a man she barely knew, and then promptly did so again with a different one.

[bryanlarsen]

We're not asking mothers to think like this. We're asking legislators to think like this.

[toomuchtodo]

The time horizon is too long and the gains too far into the future for legislators to care. It’s short termism all the way down.