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That's an interesting way to say "the West largely stopped breeding a while ago".
Not just 'the West'. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-01-21/chinas-population-is-... https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jul/26/japan-populati...
China outright banned having more than 1 kid and people aborted girls en masse. This one I grant an exemption.
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People stop having kids when economic forces work against them. It doesn't matter how the forces were put there. At least it's not like it was in Adam Smith's time, when the downward pressure was a result of children failing to reach adulthood. Thanks to birth control and modern medicine, people can decline to have children when they know the conditions are not right.
All evidence suggests that people stop having kids when their society gets richer and better educated.
I read a statistic somewhere that it costs $2M to raise a child. Considering that it's considered a horrible imposition to ask your kids for money, or even to ask them to take care of you, it's easy to explain why urbanization, industrial development, and education, work against population growth.
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People stop having kids when economic forces work against them. It doesn't matter how the forces were put there. At least it's not like it was in Adam Smith's time, when the downward pressure was a result of children failing to reach adulthood. Thanks to birth control and modern medicine, people can decline to have children when they know the conditions are not right.
People stop having kids when they choose something else. Yes, career for one. Thanks to birth control and modern values, Western people can bring themselves to extinction.
Sounds like pearl clutching with bated breath.
It's a long way to extinction with many chances to stabilise before zero.
The only options are not continuous growth or death.
That's an interesting way to say "the West largely stopped breeding a while ago".
Not just 'the West'. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-01-21/chinas-population-is-... https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jul/26/japan-populati...
Anecdata: I am 31 and have 3 young kids. They have 0 cousins and, on top of that, 0... second cousins? Cousins-once-removed? Whatever the one is for my cousin's kids. My kids are my grandma's only great-grandkids. And I have... 6 cousins. On top of that, at my last job, on my team of 15, I was the only one with kids, and only 1 of those 15 engineers were under the age of 30. At my current job, my team is 8, and again…
Betteridge’s Law says no, it is not reshaping the experience of childhood. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headline...
Anecdata: I am 31 and have 3 young kids. They have 0 cousins and, on top of that, 0... second cousins? Cousins-once-removed? Whatever the one is for my cousin's kids. My kids are my grandma's only great-grandkids. And I have... 6 cousins. On top of that, at my last job, on my team of 15, I was the only one with kids, and only 1 of those 15 engineers were under the age of 30. At my current job, my team is 8, and again…
Frankly, I never really got why people wanted children in the first place, so this turnabout is amusing. Perhaps you can ask some of these people that you are close with as to their reasoning.
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All evidence suggests that people stop having kids when their society gets richer and better educated.
Children are massively more expensive, and less useful, in richer societies. I don't think anybody in Japan would be allowed to provide for their children the standards of care provided in a country with a growing population. As for the second point, if you are a farmer in a country with little physical mobility, your children are your retirement savings. If you live in America, your children are future employees of…