Glen
Moderator
Neat! Would a Southroner use this term as well, or just the Americans?
It is a shared comment on both sides, so yes, a Southron or an American will say it equally often.
Neat! Would a Southroner use this term as well, or just the Americans?
Wow, and the Malthusians continue to expand in popularity...how well do you think Malthusianism meshes with Korsgaardism, BTW? I would think they'd be pretty exclusive in many ways, but then again one could argue that a "Korsgaard-lite" government would have more sway over public affairs, which could lead to instances of Malthusian philosophy imposed by force. Scary thought, huh?
Keep up the good work!
Just checking on the Een Kind rule for post 1922 families... the first child is free but the second and such is taxed? This could cause an interesting dynamic with the upper-middle driving (slow) population replacement and growth instead of the working class.
Honestly, I don't want to sound too controversial (for OTL) but incentivizing single-child planned parenthood for the poor always made sense to me, to concentrate scarce resources on one child.
But I'm not sure how I feel about penalization.
You've really created a Different World here!
Malthusian Netherlands implementing a One Child Policy?
This TL continues to interest, educate and surprise, often in the same updates!
China's policy OTL especially in its first decade got caught up in corruption, mismanagement, and the human rights violations of the country struggling with transitioning out 3rd World status and being an experimental authoritarian state. This all led to horror stories of forced abortions and infanticide of girls etc.
Now, TTL Netherlands is a highly indusrialized stable democracy. If anyone can pull off a humane population control policy, they are near the top of the list.
But in the 1920s I still see some issues due to the perceived lower status of girls. And if the policy is too successful, there'll be a population crash eventually.
I dunno, I think if I was designing a policy I'd do a Two-Child policy with a monetary incentive targeting the poorest to have only one, but not penalizing them.
Just my 2 cents. Your writing this week has been very intellectually stimulating!
On the other subject... Promoting bisexuality as pop control in the 1920s! Please tell us how that's going over with other countries' publics! More than a few eyebrows lifted with that one I'm sure!
Yup, it was high time the "fire 'n brimstone" crowd weighed in on recent events. I'm surprised Cavalier's (interesting name, btw) views were picked up by folks in Britain yet not in the USA.
Incidentally, whatever became of Methodism and Baptism in North America, were they butterflied away?
Nice couple of updates, Glen!
Is Margaret May Thatcher suppose to be related to OTL's Margaret Thatcher in some way?
even placed homophilic acts and relationships on par with heterophilic ones.
I'm off for a couple of days and three new updates stack up Wheee!
I'm curious, how far do/did they go with this? I would be quite surprised if they're doing anything other than just decriminalization, that's to say, making homophilic relations no more illegal than male/female relations. but, and this might just be me, it almost sounds like they might have gone farther.
also, it'll be interesting to see what the one child policy does to dutch demographics, as female infanticide seems likely to be considerably less widespread. among other shaping factors that might be different.
I have to say that TTL's "margaret thatcher" is probably the funniest thing I've seen all week.