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Personally, in the face of skyrocketing depression rates since right at the advent of smartphones, and plummeting birth rates, with no actually plausible altern

Personally, in the face of skyrocketing depression rates since right at the advent of smartphones, and plummeting birth rates, with no actually plausible alternative culprit offered, ya I'm gonna start with the 10 hours of screens people are spending most of their waking hours on.

strangecasts 2y ago
> skyrocketing depression rates Again people conflate correlation and causation very easily here, and don't account for changes in how mental health conditions are coded, see https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-coddling-of-the-american-parent/ https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-coddling-of-the-american-p... > no plausible alternative culprit offered [for plummeting birth rates] "More than half the drop in America’s total fertility rate is explained by women under the age of 19 now having next to no children. Around a third of the missing births would have been unplanned, and the majority of them would have been to women on low incomes." https://archive.ph/cJY3B https://archive.ph/cJY3B
watwut 2y ago
> plummeting birth rates People not wanting to have kids has zero to do with smartphones. More to do with one more kid costing a lot of money, time, making it unable for you to socialize or have hobbies etc etc. When people wanted to have a lot of kids, it was the situation where women had no employment options, kids were expected to help you and care in old age, kids being expected to be deferential even in adult age and expectations on parenting were lower. And people had many kids when anticonception was not available. None of that is something we should get back to. Kids were mistreated a lot as a result, whole setup calls for it. And some of the people who decide to not have kids, actually should not have kids because they would be awful parents.

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Personally, in the face of skyrocketing depression rates since right at the advent of smartphones, and plummeting birth rates, with no actually plausible altern

by reducesuffering 2y ago

strangecasts 2y ago
> skyrocketing depression rates Again people conflate correlation and causation very easily here, and don't account for changes in how mental health conditions are coded, see https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-coddling-of-the-american-parent/ https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-coddling-of-the-american-p... > no plausible alternative culprit offered [for plummeting birth rates] "More than half the drop in America’s total fertility rate is explained by women under the age of 19 now having next to no children. Around a third of the missing births would have been unplanned, and the majority of them would have been to women on low incomes." https://archive.ph/cJY3B https://archive.ph/cJY3B
watwut 2y ago
> plummeting birth rates People not wanting to have kids has zero to do with smartphones. More to do with one more kid costing a lot of money, time, making it unable for you to socialize or have hobbies etc etc. When people wanted to have a lot of kids, it was the situation where women had no employment options, kids were expected to help you and care in old age, kids being expected to be deferential even in adult age and expectations on parenting were lower. And people had many kids when anticonception was not available. None of that is something we should get back to. Kids were mistreated a lot as a result, whole setup calls for it. And some of the people who decide to not have kids, actually should not have kids because they would be awful parents.