Do you find the end figures believable against other claims? I found them overly pessimistic but thats a non-scientific vibe view. Even on the most optimistic setting the $ per QALY seemed excessive.
Many of MacKenzie Scott's interventions are early age. The multiplier effect on the economy and life adjusted years should be huge by both supression of excess pregnancies and avoided child death and disease. Every avoided pregnancy is economically that woman being productive back in the workforce or managing the family on a lower overhead. Every avoided child death is 40-50 years of productive labour from that child. The soap and vaccines is $low. The life tail is enormous. If you figure the QALY for the woman lower since she's survived into post puberty, I get that but for the kids, its 50x or more on the spend.
I just found the $ per QALY way low. But, perhaps people with experience of delivery of services and aid into marginalised economies can explain?
How many additional jobs can I give you before I gain little positive in economic value? This is what forcing mothers to have more unwanted children is doing.
> Every avoided pregnancy is economically that woman being productive back in the workforce or managing the family on a lower overhead.
> Every avoided child death [or additional child born] is 40-50 years of productive labour from that child.
Opinions about abortion and birth control aside, these two seem to be opposing calculations. If that's controversial, perhaps the conclusion should be that economic value is the wrong metric.
You're missing choice. When a woman chooses to have a child, she can then raise that child. When a woman chooses to not have a child, she gets to be productive.
I think a great many women and a great many economists (and women who are economists for that matter) would take issue with the notion that raising a child is the alternative to being productive.
Ask any policy maker in South Korea how they feel about the social value in raising children. It's not a film adaptation of a book starring Clive Owen and Julianne Moore, it's 2055 or thereabouts in the China, the US isn't so far behind.
Speaking for myself, just knowing there is someone in the billionaire class who is still an incandescent beacon of humanity, humility, and hope has in some nontrivial way increased the quality of my years since she started on this path.
She is an existence proof that a now-inevitable extreme inequality regime is not by construction maximally cynical and extractive.
Right, but she is not pathologically like the other billionaires. She married a man who became one. Same with Melinda Gates. So I guess our hope is that more billionaires will lust after young Russians or hot newscasters and get divorced, so their normal wives can do what normal people do with more money than they’d even need and help others.
Do you find the end figures believable against other claims? I found them overly pessimistic but thats a non-scientific vibe view. Even on the most optimistic setting the $ per QALY seemed excessive.
Many of MacKenzie Scott's interventions are early age. The multiplier effect on the economy and life adjusted years should be huge by both supression of excess pregnancies and avoided child death and disease. Every avoided pregnancy is economically that woman being productive back in the workforce or managing the family on a lower overhead. Every avoided child death is 40-50 years of productive labour from that child. The soap and vaccines is $low. The life tail is enormous. If you figure the QALY for the woman lower since she's survived into post puberty, I get that but for the kids, its 50x or more on the spend.
I just found the $ per QALY way low. But, perhaps people with experience of delivery of services and aid into marginalised economies can explain?
> Every avoided pregnancy is economically that woman being productive back in the workforce or managing the family on a lower overhead
The child who would’ve been born is assumed to have had zero economic value? lol
How many additional jobs can I give you before I gain little positive in economic value? This is what forcing mothers to have more unwanted children is doing.
> Every avoided pregnancy is economically that woman being productive back in the workforce or managing the family on a lower overhead.
> Every avoided child death [or additional child born] is 40-50 years of productive labour from that child.
Opinions about abortion and birth control aside, these two seem to be opposing calculations. If that's controversial, perhaps the conclusion should be that economic value is the wrong metric.
No, these are the right metrics.
You're missing choice. When a woman chooses to have a child, she can then raise that child. When a woman chooses to not have a child, she gets to be productive.
I think a great many women and a great many economists (and women who are economists for that matter) would take issue with the notion that raising a child is the alternative to being productive.
Ask any policy maker in South Korea how they feel about the social value in raising children. It's not a film adaptation of a book starring Clive Owen and Julianne Moore, it's 2055 or thereabouts in the China, the US isn't so far behind.
Speaking for myself, just knowing there is someone in the billionaire class who is still an incandescent beacon of humanity, humility, and hope has in some nontrivial way increased the quality of my years since she started on this path.
She is an existence proof that a now-inevitable extreme inequality regime is not by construction maximally cynical and extractive.
Right, but she is not pathologically like the other billionaires. She married a man who became one. Same with Melinda Gates. So I guess our hope is that more billionaires will lust after young Russians or hot newscasters and get divorced, so their normal wives can do what normal people do with more money than they’d even need and help others.