$300,000 is a big number, enough that it starts becoming cost-competitive for the government to just contract out every component of the gamete → educated 18 year old pipeline.
That is, the state pays for donor gametes, IVF, surrogacy, and 18 years of foster care. There’s a lot of confounding factors here, but the last time I ran the numbers it was something like $200,000-$300,000 per child.
At the very least, this is a solution that continues to work even if desired number of chidren craters all the way to 0 - daycares don’t seem to have any trouble finding workers, after all.
$300,000 is a big number, enough that it starts becoming cost-competitive for the government to just contract out every component of the gamete → educated 18 year old pipeline.
That is, the state pays for donor gametes, IVF, surrogacy, and 18 years of foster care. There’s a lot of confounding factors here, but the last time I ran the numbers it was something like $200,000-$300,000 per child.
At the very least, this is a solution that continues to work even if desired number of chidren craters all the way to 0 - daycares don’t seem to have any trouble finding workers, after all.