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…continuing their family line…

I’m not Henry VIII, just some rube from Indiana. Our family is nothing special.

…or the human species

Nor is this some post-apocalyptic future where children are scarce.

Children kind of are scarce, though? Most countries aren’t reproducing at replacement levels. Were that to continue forever, the human population would go to zero.

School districts around me are closing schools because there aren’t enough kids to fill them.

Murray Rothbard argued there should be a thriving market for children. There's certainly something to it, there are so many places where children or at least female ones are viewed as completely without value and yet others who view them as both scarce and valuable. We are currently struggling much in this world with the problem of ensuring children end up where they are most cherished and valued.

It sounds terrible, but I'm inclined to agree with him the children would be better off if there really were child auctions.

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