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Oblivious Europeans hurtle to their extinction
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Written by August Pointneuf
Oblivious Europeans hurtle to their extinction. In evolutionary terms this could be the fastest sub-species extinction, from height of success to elimination, ever.
One of the accelerators is the production cost of its children. Children will always come at a cost. This might be the loss of maternal productivity, the effects of illness on the family unit, and naturally the costs of daily maintenance. The Europeans, however, produce the most expensive children in history. Maternal-paternal loss-of-production is encouraged, legislated into the economic equation. Healthcare and prophylaxis against illness, often of doubtful benefit, is costlier than ever in history. Schooling is mandatory until well past pubescence. University training of the proletariat is now universally sought and demanded. Much of this training is in arenas which have no possible benefit to the economies of this century. Classical and philosophical triposes leisurely bred admirable and proven administrators: but without the empires, which fuelled the economies, to whom will they administer?
Let us look also at the material sumptuousness heaped on almost every child – the finest clothes, McLaren prams, and an extraordinary surfeit of “toys” with an enormous per capita cost by the standards of the world. The pubescent is showered even more: travel abroad, lavish entertainment, indulgence in sport and a myriad of “activities” from ballet to dramatics. Much of this necessitates adult presence and so these become economically committed to this “advancement” of children. These are the trainers, teachers, coaches, supervisors, legislators, social workers, librarians and more. These are lost to the productive economy and their cost factors into the final production cost of these children.
Government is significantly culpable. It has legislated many “protective insurances”. Examples range from complex playground design to extraordinary measures to assess and label millions as to their suitability to be “near” children. Financially untenable requirements are placed on schools in demanding misguided protectiveness. Child benefits which short-out practical paternal contributions to their children’s maintenance, and the productive loss caused by absentee parents, also make each of these children a more expensive national product
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Parental competitiveness adds to the burden, where parents try to help their child beat other children, perhaps by expensive schools, additional coaching in academics and sports (skating and gymnastics, and far more). It seems parents feel an obligation to take their children on distant travel holidays, to give them “experience” (for that read skills to outperform others) and to allow them to triumphantly upstage their peers.
These financial loads, both self-imposed and imposed by law (and therefore paid for by all parents) necessitate small broods – often kept smaller by abortion. The direct and indirect costs of aborting must also be written into the final cost of the child when it reaches productivity.
The pound and euro costs have often been calculated. They are irrelevant, because the European costs outstrip third world costs by factors of thousands.
The end result: Europe has a small reproductive product, perhaps exquisitely produced. Its production takes years longer than that of the competition. The final product is often, on delivery, unsuited to contribute adequately to overall productivity of the nation. The price that is being paid for the development of these children is out of proportion to their economic worth.
Meanwhile the rapidly and cheaply produced products of the third world, in their masses, flood the market.
August Pointneuf
