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Comment by ksdale

I agree completely with the premise that most people don't appreciate just how fleeting fertility can be, but I think rather than freezing eggs, the solution is for people to normalize having children at a younger age and designing work and home life around children existing and even being present in certain work contexts.

Obviously freezing your eggs is something that you can do as individual without society's input, and my preferred solution is a cultural overhaul...

But economic productivity is only useful insofar as it leads to better lives for people, economic activity that increases well-being by one unit is pointless if it requires us to spend more than one unit of well-being (by say, freezing our eggs and not becoming grandparents until we're 80) to achieve it.

parent ksdale 5 years ago

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