npc_anon

There was an interesting study earlier this week that is essential to this discussion.

I'm afraid I don't have the link but the gist was that most couples do ultimately want and have children. Slightly too less for population replacement but still. However, the far more alarming issue is the lack of couples. Couple forming is falling off a cliff.

That's performative policy. Hungarian mothers of 3 weren't paying much or any taxes at all in the first place. Because on average they have a small or no income.

I think a better policy would be to reduce the tax burden of a couple with 3 children. This makes working quite lucrative whilst at the same time it creates the flexibility for the couple to distribute work how they see fit, whether this is a breadwinner model or more hybrid.

Pinning this to the mother doesn't work. The policy incentive is to work as much as possible whilst at the same time carrying the burden of 3 children. Not an attractive combination.

On a similar note, humans cannot colonize the galaxy. Sending a single message across would take thousands of years. Instead a human ancestor would split into various individual species.

When you think of it, light speed is really slow. Even on Earth we are capped by it.

All humanoids except our species are extinct, and it's not because we killed them.