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> In just 3-5 generations, the people who will own the Earth are those in cultures or subcultures that have lots of children even in the presence of birth contr
by bildung 6y ago
> In just 3-5 generations, the people who will own the Earth are those in cultures or subcultures that have lots of children even in the presence of birth control
Where have I seen that argumentation before... oh yeah: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_eugenics#/media/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_102-16748,_Ausstellung_%22Wunder_des_Lebens%22.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_eugenics#/media/File:Bund...
That was 3-5 generations ago, yet somehow didn't come true.
For this to really work like you state,
* the cultures have to be stagnant
* income has to be stagnant
* zero movement between cultures has to take place and so on.
> Because while a lot of cultures and subcultures are choosing not to have lots of children, it is not uniform by any means.
It is when you control for income, though: The more wealthy nations become, the less children get born. Even inside the US, when you group by income brackets: https://www.statista.com/statistics/241530/birth-rate-by-family-income-in-the-us/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/241530/birth-rate-by-fam...
- bayesian_horse 6y agoTo be fair, he wasn't talking about eugenics directly, but he's invoking a lot of assumptions and sentiments about "certain cultures" outproducing others. Certainly sounds similar...
- mcguire 6y agoIndependently reinvented eugenics is still eugenics.
- Chris2048 6y ago> yet somehow didn't come true Isn't it? How would you prove/disprove this? > oh yeah: <Nazi_eugenics> The thing about pseudo-science is it often borrows (and distorts) real scientific concepts to masquerade as such; the existence of homeopathy doesn't discredit conventional medicine.