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So for fact sake, search the economist. We live in an era of catastrophic predictions. A lot of these come from the modern

progressive left no doubt the catastrophic

predictions of global climate change by way of global cooling in the 1970s which

actually never transpired after which those catastrophic claims became ones of global warming, which still haven't transpired.

You saw the same catastrophism at work with the advent of COVID-19.

You see a lot of it right now, perhaps on better footing,

perhaps not, with respect to catastrophizing the rise of AI.

But what's interesting is you hear a lot less concern

about what I personally believe could be

one of the great catastrophes in a way that just has plain facts already staring

us in the face that we don't have to theorize much about, which is the decline of fertility

rates, particularly in the modern West.

First of all, when you have fewer children, you're less happy.

There's well-established studies on the rates of human happiness and human flourishing when you're bringing

fewer children into the world. But I don't mean this in a deep psychological touchy-feely sense. I mean

this in a sense of raw mathematics, in a sense of raw economic productivity and raw sustenance of a society,

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