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This could just as easily mean that people who are happy have more kids, not that having kids makes you happy.

• jdthedisciple 3y ago
  This is like saying "it could just be that people who are successful happen to be hard-working, not that working hard increases your chances of success" The societal level of denial has reached new heights indeed.
  • HDThoreaun 3y ago
    Except you haven't actually given any evidence that kids cause happiness, just a correlation.
  • anovikov 3y ago
    On the last point, i am not even sure there is correlation let alone causation. Successful people i know hardly work a lot (or they do but in short extreme stunts, like 3 weeks of 80-100 hours a week and then almost idle at 0-10 hours a week for the next 6 months). They mostly just tuned themselves into ability to get "into right place at the right time" at a rate way more frequent than regular folks, by having and consciously developing right personality traits.
    • jdthedisciple 3y ago
      > by having and consciously developing right personality traits. Which takes a lot of effort and hard work. > They mostly just tuned themselves into ability to get "into right place at the right time" Which takes a lot of hard work > then almost idle at 0-10 hours a week for the next 6 months You have been tricked into thinking so, they just work so much more efficiently at some point and delegate a lot - at which point they are already successful due to their previous hard work