From: dummy@emf.net
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 1995 11:15:12 -0700
In-Reply-To: "Michael.Chamberland"'s message as of Oct 20,  9:57pm
To: PROGRESSIVE POPULATION NETWORK <ppn@csf.colorado.edu>
Subject: Re: Press Clips
Old-From: robertb@barra.com
 > From: "Michael.Chamberland" <23274MJC@MSU.EDU>
 > Date: Fri  Oct 20,  9:57pm
 >
 . . . Fewer women in the population could ultimately
 > result in slower population growth, and might not a shortage of women
 > make the culture place a higher value on them?
 > 
 > Michael Chamberland

This reminds me of the "false scarcity" that capitalism always peddles.
For example, the Federal Reserve props up the value of the dollar by
increasing interest rates.  It can do this because it has a monopoly on
the production and maintenance (via selective violence) of the currency.

Similarly, a "false scarcity" of women falls right into this sort of
thinking -- that the value of girl babies will be propped up by
artificially having fewer of them due to their destruction or
nonexistence.  What will the consequences of this be?  Girl babies being
traded on a black market?  Rich Chinese men buying women?  This sort of
thinking seems really dangerous, ultimately destructive, and feeds right
into the hands of the profiteers.

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