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This is contradicted by all available evidence: “traditional” societies succeed when they industrialize and liberalize. France was 20% of Europe’s population in
by woodruffw 4y ago
This is contradicted by all available evidence: “traditional” societies succeed when they industrialize and liberalize. France was 20% of Europe’s population in 1700, but there is no meaningful sense in which the average French subject was “succeeding” in 1700.
- 4gotunameagain 4y agoThe comparison of the article is pretty clear. Secularism and liberalisation led to plummeting birth rates. This is to what I am referring.
- woodruffw 4y agoThat’s not a great metric of success, as pointed out in TFA: most places with high birth rates have them because environmental pressures demand it. Remove the pressure (excess child mortality), and the social factors that justify high birthrates disappear. We’re presumably in agreement that imposing excess infant mortality is not a good idea.