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One of the most troubling things about the decline in population growth is that the most educated people, and in my experience the most "planning-oriented" peop
by spoonjim 5y ago
One of the most troubling things about the decline in population growth is that the most educated people, and in my experience the most "planning-oriented" people in that group, are the ones least likely to have kids. This means that the people most equipped to tackle long-term problems are supplying the fewest number of children with their genes and values into the population, which will cause our electoral politics to be increasingly dominated by the uneducated and the impulsive.
- watwut 5y agoToo much of "planning-orientation" clashes with kids anyway.
- NavinF 5y agohttps://xkcd.com/603/ https://xkcd.com/603/
- mtrovo 5y agoOnly if we had better methods of allowing social mobility and selecting the best among us that wouldnt involve which family you came from. /s On a more serious note I really believe that only the "poor hustlers" strata of society is not having kids, i.e couples that have good jobs but would be poor if any of them stopped working, so they have a dog for now and pretend they will have kids after they're 40. If you go up on the ladder you probably don't have the same growth problem, take N=1 Ellon Musk with 7 kids as example. Reminds me of how having real animals on Blade Runner was a privilege of the ultra rich :).
- TheAdamAndChe 5y agoThere is a strong connection between genetics and IQ.
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- ur-whale 5y agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sP2tUW0HDHA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sP2tUW0HDHA
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