Old science fiction novel. “Podkayne of Mars” by Robert Heinlein.
In the future Martian colonial women are encouraged to get married young and have a bunch of kids. The children are placed in cryogenic stasis until the parents can afford to raise them.
My personal favorite is from his ‘Double Star.’ It’s never discussed in great detail, but the quick version is that voters get to choose what non-geographic community they live in.
Instead of picking your Member of Parliament based on your physical address, you can opt to be part of the community of ‘Farmers’ or ‘Teachers’ or ‘Military Veterans’ or ‘Gamers’ or ‘Soccer Moms.’
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Old science fiction novel. “Podkayne of Mars” by Robert Heinlein.
In the future Martian colonial women are encouraged to get married young and have a bunch of kids. The children are placed in cryogenic stasis until the parents can afford to raise them.
Heinlein always had a knack of finding core societal issues as well as the most deranged solutions to them.
You say that like it’s a bad thing.
My personal favorite is from his ‘Double Star.’ It’s never discussed in great detail, but the quick version is that voters get to choose what non-geographic community they live in.
Instead of picking your Member of Parliament based on your physical address, you can opt to be part of the community of ‘Farmers’ or ‘Teachers’ or ‘Military Veterans’ or ‘Gamers’ or ‘Soccer Moms.’