Peter St Onge, Ph.D.
@profstonge · 4. Apr. 2025
From the free newsletter: “World Population is Collapsing”
What’s driving it is 3 things that changed the cost-benefit of kids:
Kids no longer earn — some stay in school til they’re 30.
Kids cost a lot because of inflation and college.
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Elon Musk
@elonmusk
Throughout history, periods of extended prosperity for civilizations have always led to population declines.
Counterintuitively, it is when civilizations are richest that they have fewer children, as most people cannot cognitively override the limbic attraction of hedonism and envy, the latter being particularly pernicious.
Low birth rates were a big deal for the Romans as early as ~50BC, for example. They debated endlessly about how to solve the problem and they failed.
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