'A Child Is the Last Non-Automatable Good': Viral Take on Automation and Fertility
l4rz · x · 2026-10-12
l4rz argues that everything made on machine time gets cheaper each year, while goods made of irreducible human hours only rise in price — and child-rearing is the purest case, "a good made of nothing but years of its parents' time," hence the last non-automatable good. He adds that any plan to fix falling fertility requiring a billion people to choose hard mode daily "isn't a plan, it's a sermon."
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