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This is a problem that'll solve itself eventually; the desire to have children is to some degree inheritable, so the people with genes that make them still like
by logicchains 3y ago
This is a problem that'll solve itself eventually; the desire to have children is to some degree inheritable, so the people with genes that make them still likely to have children in modern society will outbreed the people with genes that make them unlikely to have children in modern society. Similarly the cultures that make people more likely to have children will outspread those that make people less likely to have children, so maybe in a few centuries the Amish, Orthodox Jews and Muslims will rule the earth.
- zpeti 3y agoThis is not clear at all. Perhaps people who don't want kids will die out, but if this is a cultural issue that affects our basic human instincts, it could be something that is extremely hard to fix. Perhaps in modern society, whatever you do, people only want 1-1.5 kids? If that's the case, without a radical cultural change, humans are basically going extinct.
- qvrjuec 3y ago> whatever you do, people only want 1-1.5 kids? This is definitely not true. Look at the fertility rates of any of the aforementioned cultures. Humans will never go extinct because they're making the conscious choice to do so...
- logicchains 3y ago>Perhaps in modern society, whatever you do, people only want 1-1.5 kids? This clearly isn't true because the Amish and Ultra-orthodox Jews still want/have 7-8 kids, and they live in modern society. I'm not sure about the Ultra-orthodox, but the Amish are certainly capable of sustaining their standards of living even if the rest of America dies out, so humanity wouldn't go extinct, it'd just become 100% Amish (and whatever other cultures are able to maintain persistently high fertility rates).
- FooBarBizBazz 3y agoAmish do need to expand to new land though. They're priced out of the Lancaster homeland. But they don't want expensive urban real estate, so it's ok. Down side: They're apparently involved in deforestation of remote parts of the Amazon for that reason. Up side: They're bringing life to some remote parts of the US you wouldn't think of.
- PaulHoule 3y agoIn upstate NY they seem to be creating new "colonies", I used to see them with their horse carriages in the area around the old Seneca Army Depot, now I am seeing them around Marathon (which really is about 26 miles from Ithaca.)
- lotsofpulp 3y ago> This clearly isn't true because the Amish and Ultra-orthodox Jews still want/have 7-8 kids, and they live in modern society. Give Amish and Ultra Orthodox Jewish women financial independence and see how many kids they have.
- coldtea 3y ago>This is a problem that'll solve itself eventually If you include the option of extinction, sure.