[ExI] Women

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[mailto:extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org] On Behalf Of David Lubkin
Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2012 6:47 PM
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Subject: [ExI] Women

Think out of the box. Assume you have, say, $20 billion to spend on the
problem and you don't care whose laws you break, collateral damage, or
ethics. Or make it a trillion. The treatment of girls and women in large
chunks of the world is appalling. What could you fund that would have a high
probability of changing this altogether within 5-50 years?


-- David.

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Buy and distribute the technology to determine gender of a fetus shortly
after conception, and create arbitrarily many abortion clinics.  Those
places which treat women abominably will choose to abort far more female
fetuses than male.  Within a decade, they will suffer the modern China
Syndrome: they suddenly notice there are not nearly enough girls.  The
treatment of women in China has improved dramatically since the China
Syndrome was noted.

I expect that the female/male ratio will reach an equilibrium at about
45/55.  Then the women will be treated as princesses.  Men will kill each
other over them.   After that lethal battle, there will be just enough women
to meet the demand, and all will be respected.

That wouldn't even cost 20 billion.

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