MAvery

I just watched this video from reasonTV and I was wondering how the market could protect from this. I have had trouble reasoning out a free society solution to cyber bullying, revenge porn and this kind of issue. Does anyone have any ideas? Thanks, Michael

"Necessity is the mother of invention" - when the population grows the market will figure out ways to deal with it. If you are not satisfied with that then it may be prudent to remember that NGO's and charities currently run voluntary family planning programs in some African countries to tackle the high fertility rates. These programs help to educate parents about the problems with having too many children and they provide contraception to help reduce accidental births. If population becomes a problem in the free society I don't see why the market could not educate people about the issues and subsidise(using charities) reducing population growth. Also in the current world many MEDC's have fertility rates below the replacement rate. For example the US the fertility rate is 2.05 - this is only slightly above the replacement rate(2). Many developed countries such as Germany and Japan have fertility rates below replacement level. In all honesty an ageing population is more of a threat than a youthful one. Although of course the free market can handle this "problem" as well.