I have a two-year old daughter. I want more kids, not fewer. If I had known how amazing raising a kid was, I would have started sooner. Smart people need to bring more smart people to the world.
And yes, I've worked in startups and founded a company last year; we're ending beta this June. I can work a little bit extra before she gets up, and after she goes to sleep. The one thing that has suffered the most has been the time we used to spend watching a few shows on TV. Every minute I spend with our daughter is worth more than any evening of TV. Every new phrase is a delight.
Not to mention that your daughter is a creative person who will solve all kinds of problems and improve the lives of the people she encounters. Sadly, theoretical "other people's children" are assumed to be dead weight who consume food and oil and do nothing else. Some people are actively misled into living harmful lives and a rare few generate their own evil motivations, but the majority simply live up to low expectations set by the people who prefer widespread contraception over births.
A startup that changed the way intelligent people view children would change the world in a much more dramatic and useful way than this contraceptive medicine.
You comment puzzles me. Hopefully you will reply below.
Are you discounting the value of reversible birth control based upon your feelings at a certain point in time? Also remember that evolution has probably programmed children be "amazing" until they can fend for themselves.
Presumably you're comfortably middle-class in a first-world country with a good social contract (yes, kid-friendly services like subsidized/free public schools and universities are a safety net). You need to step back and think about societies which don't have such luxuries.
And sorry to get all personal on you, but do you use ANY scientific form of birth control? Are you ok with you/your SO getting pregnant every year (unsure about your gender, hence hedging)? That's usually what happens w/o birth control. If you do use scientific birth control (so-called "rhythm" method etc don't count) then your comment is pretty hypocritical.
I started two write a response, twice, but your arbitrary assumptions don't deserve answers. Your general tone does not indicate a desire for dialogue.
Your original post is completely off-topic, or do you actually want everyone to have as many kids as humanly possible? That would equal 1 kid a year, do you want everyone to have 1 kid a year, even teenagers, grandmas..everyone? No? Then stay on topic, which is prevention.
