The connection between wealth and low birthrates is well established around the world. You don't need to invoke politics to account for declining family sizes: as the family need for labor declines and the options available for adults in the way they spend their time shift, then the number of kids per couple slides. The answer the US has found to its demographic challenges over its entire history is immigration. Red states and right wing politics opposed to immigration are thus directly implicated in any population based theory of decline.
Agreed. The issue in my mind is that work has provided people with meaning. Where do we go for meaning? AI has given me all kinds of new ideas and leveraged my primitive creativity. I also tend to think that we can innovate around climate challenges. Could be wrong. Thanks for your thoughts.
The connection between wealth and low birthrates is well established around the world. You don't need to invoke politics to account for declining family sizes: as the family need for labor declines and the options available for adults in the way they spend their time shift, then the number of kids per couple slides. The answer the US has found to its demographic challenges over its entire history is immigration. Red states and right wing politics opposed to immigration are thus directly implicated in any population based theory of decline.
Agreed. The issue in my mind is that work has provided people with meaning. Where do we go for meaning? AI has given me all kinds of new ideas and leveraged my primitive creativity. I also tend to think that we can innovate around climate challenges. Could be wrong. Thanks for your thoughts.