I suppose a billionaire was the leader of my tribe for many years until I was laid off from that company last year. So my livelihood and healthcare were depende

I suppose a billionaire was the leader of my tribe for many years until I was laid off from that company last year. So my livelihood and healthcare were dependent on his whims which is incredibly stressful. Like multiple people crying on conference calls stressful. As for the birthrate, I'm sure it's far from simple, but women report wanting more children then they actually have - it would suggest that something is stopping them from reaching that ideal, wouldn't it? And as for your other comment, yes I think many of the advances of that period were extraordinary which is why I think it was such an amazing period of time. Surgery was just barely practical at the start and by the mid 20th we were transplanting organs. Polio was eradicated in that time period and childhood disease was greatly reduced as well. It was in fact the heyday of antibiotics - they were novel and resistant bacteria hadn't developed yet. I've listened to Steven Pinker and Lyman Stone and James Pethokoukis and Arthur Brooks and plenty of other American Enterprise Institute approved talking heads who they like to trot out to tell me that actually unlimited greed is a good thing and we just don't know why Americans are more unhappy than ever and dying en masse younger than they used to of cirrhosis and fentanyl overdose and self-inflicted gunshot wounds. I keep trying to see the same clothes on the Emperor that they tell me they see, but he just looks naked to me.