tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6600547462620775535.post233734207048785378..comments2008-05-05T10:07:45.582-05:00f.f.http://www.blogger.com/profile/15189780903818004615noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6600547462620775535.post-37171949548156460342008-05-05T10:07:00.000-05:002008-05-05T10:07:00.000-05:00Growing a baby does not strike me as fundamentally more or less menial than, oh say, performing the same sequence of movements to press some metal bit all day long for some finished machine whose operation nobody in the factory understands or could possibly afford. The latter rents out a bit of their muscle and motor-neural system, while the former rents out their uterus, is the only difference.<BR/><BR/>That being the case, this is just another way for wealth to flow from developed nations into the developing. Actually, no, it's one of the best ways for wealth to flow into India, because the majority of it goes straight to the pockets of India's lower class women. If this became more widespread, it would be a far more effective means of increasing the size of India's middle class and the economic power of women than other means of wealth inflow, which have a much less direct influence on those things, seeing as it first goes through Indian businesses (which are not, as a rule, owned by women or members of the lower class) and then through the men that hold most of the jobs created thereby.ARhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09695255436104873832noreply@blogger.com