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Perhaps the increasing difficulty of parenting is nature's feedback cycle to slow global warming. Theoretically plausible if DNA came from outer space and had
by daxfohl 10y ago
Perhaps the increasing difficulty of parenting is nature's feedback cycle to slow global warming. Theoretically plausible if DNA came from outer space and had already encoded some weird mechanism there. However assuming thus, unlikely given Fermi paradox.
- TeMPOraL 10y agoOr maybe it's nature feedback cycle to slow down the growth economy when it reaches absurd levels. Note that the strongest relationship found for number of children people have is the inverse correlation with wealth.
- daxfohl 10y agoReference of last statement? Most at top of the Forbes list have kids. Still, quoting someone else's sarcasm, "I don't know what the meaning of life is, but if it's not 'increasing shareholder value', we're all screwed".
- TeMPOraL 10y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_and_fertility https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_and_fertility
- emp_zealoth 10y agoOn average level, the reacher the nation, the less kids they have. Btw you can google that, it is so widely known almost anything relevant you put into the search bar will return dozens of results. But i guess it is easier to say "reference?" to every single little fact... /rant
- daxfohl 10y agoThe quote was that it was "the strongest relationship" though. Strongest with respect to what? That's what I was asking reference for.
- antisthenes 10y ago> Note that the strongest relationship found for number of children people have is the inverse correlation with wealth. That is incorrect and is an often-repeated myth. There's an inverse correlation with education, not wealth. To my knowledge, there have been no good studies for the western societies that isolate education from wealth for total fertility rates. http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/282/1806/20150287 http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/282/1806/2015... From results: educational capital and market integration are generally negatively associated with fertility, whereas farming and non-farming wealth are generally positively associated with fertility. Here's another one: http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/REST_a_00257 http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/REST_a_00257 For the cross-section of non-Hispanic white married couples in the United States, we show that when we restrict comparisons to similarly educated women living in similarly expensive locations, completed fertility is positively correlated with the husband's income. The empirical evidence is consistent with children being “normal.” Hmmm.... Regardless of how many kids are had, families will optimize to maximize the total economic spending on their offspring, so lowering fertility comes at the cost of growth of total ecological impact of the fewer kids.