Subject: Re: ZPG, NPG, and Birds
Date: Apr 25 08:56:48 1995
From: Amicus Diaboli - cack at u.washington.edu




> Tweeters,
> Regarding Singapore: At one time Singapore's incentives were quite biased.
Not sure of current status. College educated women were given certain
advantages for having extra children,
less educated women were paid to be sterilized.
> I admit I might have to dig to find my original source on this information,
but I didn't doubt it when I read it.
> I'm a supporter of ZPG, but I don't think Singapore is an example
to aspire to.
add to that some social engineering forbidding marriage between people of
differing iq levels (i presume they had prescribed ranges) and more recently
caning. as always imposition of some things will result in restriction of
freedom of some other things and usually these measures have been pretty
successful in dictatorships/miltary rules.

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