• Zink@programming.dev
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    11 months ago

    You’re just asserting something without evidence too.

    You know, generally as wealth increases birth rate decreases. Just look at the population crises coming up around the developed world.

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      10 months ago

      Fertility goes down as wealth increases because developed industrial societies don’t use child labor and infant mortality has gone way down. It’s not because intelligence is a disadvantage.

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      10 months ago

      You know, generally as wealth increases birth rate decreases. Just look at the population crises coming up around the developed world.

      This is the exact opposite of why people are having fewer kids in areas with population crises.

      People generally have fewer kids in developed nations than in developing nations because all of their children are likely to survive.

      Population crises arise due to social and economic factors.

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          10 months ago

          One can easily make the argument that the children are surviving because of the increased wealth.

          That is the argument, yes

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          10 months ago

          My only disagreement is where population crises come from. These are cultural and economic issues, generally, not necessary consequences of wealth building.

          Otherwise yeah you’re spot on