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You're so virtuous. swoon .
yeah whatever. what are you doing to help things?
Bleating anonymously online about your own race in an attempt to garner internet points from racist strangers is “helping things”?
Fewer Births Than Deaths Among Whites in Majority of U.S. States
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Re: Fewer Births Than Deaths Among Whites in Majority of U.S. States
#52I'm 33 and my spouse is 31, we just had our first child. Of our 20 or so closest white friends, there are exactly two couples with babies. Most aren't even married yet. This is in NYC so I expect that we're outliers, but given that fertility starts declining significantly around 35, I've got to imagine our friend group won't even be close to the replacement rate. So unless we're not just outliers but extreme outliers…
Yeah, it seems like more and more people are delaying kids until it’s “now or never” scenario. Not good. Have kids as early as possible because of the work and energy involved. It’s not just fertility that declines, but IQ and a rise in birth defects.
>Have kids as early as possible
Why?
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You are blaming the GOP (whose economic policies are the primary driver of low birth rates) for electing Trump. Good job!
I'm sorry but I strongly disagree that political policies generally lead to higher or lower birth rates. Birth rates are largely correlated to the developmental level of a country at a more macro-level.
Disagree if you wish but it's mostly an economic decision.
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#54The political implications are pretty interesting. It doesn't seem like rural areas are "replenishing" at all, thus, getting older, which seems to coincide with being generally more conservative and typically more "protective". Also, rural areas don't seem to see much positive economic development these days. Thus, it's likely that the rural vote will become even more distrusting of central authority and extreme in g…
This might be a story of economic disaster areas turning "colored" rather than a story of whites not having kids.
Of course the oldest of folks aren't moving out.
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You're implying that technology won't be able to increase productivity. One of the biggest topics people are talking about is automation taking jobs, so why do we need to worry about population size? Human population grows exponentially, earth has finite resources. Constant population growth is suicidal.
> You're implying that technology won't be able to increase productivity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secular_stagnation_theory A component of which is the observation that real production growth has been essentially zero since the 1980s. So clearly you can have technological advances without any productivity growth. > Human population grows exponentially, earth has finite resources. Constant population growth is su…
> So clearly you can have technological advances without any productivity growth.
A little perspective is required. From the 1860’s to the 1960’s we went from candles and horses to computers and the moon landing. In the past 50 years nothing comparable to electricity, automobiles, flight, space flight, antibiotics, refrigeration, computers, telephones, radio, nuclear power, etc. has been invented. We have only refined technology invented by our great grandparents. Our civilization is stagnant and incapable of producing the kind of people who can move us forward. And, when the population begins to decline, we’ll begin to regress. Our great grandchildren might only read about airplanes in books.
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yeah whatever. what are you doing to help things?
Bleating anonymously online about your own race in an attempt to garner internet points from racist strangers is “helping things”?
This kind of comment isn't allowed here, regardless of how wrong someone else is. And unfortunately you've posted many other comments that break this site's guidelines (see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html).
HN is not a site for ideological battle, regardless of which ideology you favor. We've warned you about this repeatedly. If you can't or won't use the site as intended, we're going to have to ban you, so would you please fix this?