Should society incentivize, subsidize or pay for people to get sterilized?

I thought the great thing now was to encourage more people to have kids - pronatalism - isn't that the big thing now?

Then since you suffer from anxiety and depression which are mental conditions, you would also be sterilized.
So yes. I agree!

Certain people.

Insufferable rich people will populate the world

I see where you are going and it has some merit, but who would volunteer? I think so few would that the cost of the program would exceed any benefit.

Certain individuals should be offered about 10k each to be sterilized. Now THAT would be a good long term investment .

I would support it as long as it is voluntary.

How do ensure that it really is voluntary?

No. First of all, income changes over the course of a person's lifespan. Doing permanent sterilization based on that would be silly.

Second of all, birthrates are already going down at an unsustainable pace. This would worsen that.

Third of all, let's say this is needed and it does work. Social safety nets have a tendency to decay in capitalist societies, and the only thing that really stops it is societal upset. If you have a system like this where poor people can sell their fertility, you may end up reducing that social upset without actually strengthening the social safety net. Essentially it becomes an expectation that you'll sell your fertility just to survive if you're up shit river.

IDK if I'm articulating this well, it's a bit of an abstract problem. You'd be infinitely better off just taking the money and investing it into social support programs.

I wouldn’t be surprised if bill gates did just that w all his money after his death : have his foundation pay people to be sterile

Require sterilization if the individual needs welfare assistance beyond X amount of time.

No, we need a tech bro ectomy.

Wait ... Low income is an indicator that someone would be a poor parent???

@BlueVeins echos my sentiment I think... pretty much but I would add that I don't think voluntary sterilization is a bad thing after all... individual choice.

Why wouldn't I be in favour of this? To anyone for whom the second world war was even recent history, never mind lived experience, it's creepy. It's eugenics. It's labelling people as greater or lesser or nothing at all. If that's what's going to happen, it'll be a sad end to my life because I thought all that stuff had been confined to the history books.