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Yes. Because of the phenomenon of birth control. People tend to choose to reproduce only in stable committed relationships. Fewer and fewer people are getting married, fewer and fewer marriages are lasting because the quality of their partners has decreased, and relationships are more disposable.

There are other factors at play there as well, but it seems very clear to me that the struggle people have in finding a permanent committed relationship is definitely influencing their choice to reproduce. I know many people who desire relationship and family but are still alone and either alone or cycling through partners and struggling with a sense of despair.

Exodia38 2y ago

I think differently. I think people don't have kids either because they're poor or because their integrity has been completely eroded by the fiat world (cantillon effect, nihilism, malthusianism, granular polarization,etc), not because lack of pickiness.

In my opinion the way to solve depopulation is to make the procreation process as easy as pushing a button. Every person that participates in the bitcoin standard provides an exponential advantage to everyone else (so pickiness is somewhat hypocritical). The incentives of every person in the planet will therefore align to have kids because nihilism and "economic stupor" are only based on lack of conviction. The nihilist culture will just be dragged by the bitcoin standard.

But, how to make procreation easy? Just by having more and more kids produced.

https://galepooley.substack.com/p/how-learning-inverts-the-supply-curve

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Habanero 2y ago

"People don't have kids because they are poor". Disagree. The "poor" are the most likely to procreate, see Africa or Latin America.

"People don't have kids because their integrity has been eroded" Disagree. Skirting the consequences of sex (bearing children), but instead having sex for pleasure, sport, and profit is a lack of integrity. In fact I can't think of a more of horrific act as dismembering and murdering a baby in the womb; I would say anyone that commits that level of human atrocity lacks integrity.

The simple fact is we are experiencing population decline because women choose to not to have children.

Exodia38 2y ago

Yeah, I can see room for disagreement in the first point. But being poor in a third world country is always a bottleneck situation. Being poor myself, I tell you I can't have kids because I don't have any wealth (because almost everything goes to socialists and the rent seekers that applaud them). Having a kid in my current situation would be an irresponsibility. When you are dominated by fiat and civil law, you are basically a vassal and everything around you is constantly depleted, eroded and poisoned. In USA, a lot of people were angry because the east palestine incident, but that kinds of events are experienced on a daily basis in my country. Hyperinflation sort of corrects slightly these problems because the governments can't squeeze us so easily but doesn't mean that this is a mechanism to foster procreation because it's unethical, fiat and completely wrong. It's the equivalent of Thanos but for human beings as a sort of resource, used basically to make proxy wars in a controlled way, not for exponential reproduction.

Even more, poor countries having more kids than rich countries is not a black and white situation. If you go to a country that have suffered hyperinflation like Japan, you will see that its population has the lowest birth rates, different from Russia in which men trade with a lot less life expectancy.