You can tell it’s mostly men talking, because they’re not really talking about how much ass pregnancy, childbirth, and taking care of babies fucking sucks. And unlike microchips or televisions, there’s no clear path whereby technological innovation vastly streamlines the making-more-humans process. Romanian orphanages tried to improve productivity. The results were pretty fucking bad. We would need a Westworld level of robotics and AI for that to have any possibility of working.

What I learned from being a nanny for a week
Even as I told people my plans, to a person, they were like, “Really?
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