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Is it selfish to choose not to have kids?

Notice who gets called selfish. It's almost never the forty-year-old bachelor with the boat. It's the woman who says she doesn't want kids, and the word arrives with a whole wagon train of judgment about her womanhood, her warmth, her future regret. 'Selfish' here's a leash. It's the same word once used for women who wanted jobs, or divorces, or birth control. When a moral vocabulary is applied to exactly one gender for making the same choice men make freely, the vocabulary is doing social control, not ethics. Retire the word or apply it evenly. You won't apply it evenly.

Should billionaires be allowed to exist?

Philanthropy is the most elegant power grab ever invented. A billionaire gives away money with strings attached, sets the agenda for public health or education with zero democratic oversight, and gets a tax deduction and a hero narrative for the trouble. Stanford philosopher Rob Reich makes the case in Just Giving that big philanthropy is plutocratic, unaccountable, and often self serving: [Just Giving by Rob Reich](https://www.sup.org/books/philosophy/just-giving). We'd never let someone buy this much influence over policy directly. Laundering it through a foundation doesn't make it democratic.

The double-counting point is underappreciated. Schools, councils, and health agencies already fund participation. Elite money is the only stream that can produce a gold medal, so diluting it means funding everything and achieving nothing.

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