Are the 2030s the Decade of More Kitty Cats and Sperm Donor Families?
“The trend of opinion of eugenicists is that we must make marriage more difficult. Certainly, no one who is not a desirable parent should be permitted to produce progeny. A century from now, it would no more occur to a normal person to mate with a person who is eugenically unfit than to marry a habitual criminal.” Nikola Tesla Inventor Nikola Tesla predicted that in a century, the values of his above quote would be the norm. And while eugenics itself was given a bad name due to the horrors of WW2, we may very well be entering an age where Tesla’s prediction will come true. How? In a subtle way due to economic and social patterns. Economics drives culture. When humans mastered agriculture, it allowed for those men who amassed the most resources to marry additional women, thus advancing their genetic legacy. Poorer men often had less opportunities to find mates, and this in large part explains why 80% of women, but only 40% of men in history reproduced. And even as m