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TRIGGERnometry

Population Collapse is Coming - Alex Kaschuta

TRIGGERnometry

Konstantin Kisin & Francis Foster

News, Politics, Society & Culture

4.62.6K Ratings

🗓️ 21 June 2023

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Alex Kaschuta is a writer, cultural critic and podcaster from Romania. She is the host of the Subversive Podcast and YouTube channel (@AlexKaschuta) and also publishes on Substack: https://www.alexkaschuta.com/
Check out our first interview with Alex here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzWx8U4POCg

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Stand-up comedians Konstantin Kisin (@konstantinkisin) and Francis Foster (@francisjfoster) make sense of politics, economics, free speech, AI, drug policy and WW3 with the help of presidential advisors, renowned economists, award-winning journalists, controversial writers, leading scientists and notorious comedians.

00:00 Intro
01:32 The Fertility Crisis
06:14 Are Falling Birthrates Cultural?
10:25 Contributing Factors to Childlessness
12:45 What Can We Do About The Fertility Crisis?
14:53 Do We Prioritise Immediate Pleasure Too Much?
18:34 The Rise of Surrogacy
22:35 How to Promote the Benefits of Parenthood
25:39 Sponsor Message: Locals
26:40 What Can be Done Culturally to Promote Parenthood?
30:58 The Correlation Between Birthrates & Immigration
35:16 How Status & Social Media Affect our Worldview
40:05 Can We Move Away from the Internet?
43:08 The Left/Right Paradigm
50:34 Problems With Democracy & Government
54:53 Decentralised Ways of Organising Society
58:44 Value-Based Societies
1:05:21 Equality of Opportunity Vs Equality of Outcome
1:13:05 Outro

Transcript

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0:20.4

I think it's about 3% of the world population are living in countries where

0:24.6

fertility is not declining. So, the idea that, you know, the population is growing is

0:30.8

very old news. Immigrants get old. Immigrants stop having kids as well.

0:34.7

You know, it's it's the same type of thing. You're just getting in, essentially,

0:38.8

a new dependent class because, you know, they're not good. They usually have, you know,

0:43.2

maybe more children than the typical, you know, Westerner for maybe one or two

0:47.2

generations. But it declines already. Fairly steep once they get here. Now,

0:52.2

are we going to get off the pill? Are we going to, you know, get off of the industrial

0:56.6

revolution? Yeah, you know, it's the toothpaste meat tube type situation.

1:02.8

I don't want people to end up in that position where that realization comes that late

1:08.8

and there's maybe not a huge amount you can do about it. And I think that's tragic, actually.

1:22.7

Hello and welcome to Trigonometry on Location. I'm Frances Foster. I'm Constantine Kissen.

1:28.7

And this is a show for you if you want honest conversations with fascinating people.

1:33.4

Our brilliant guest today is returning to the show. She's a writer and the host of the

1:37.4

subversive podcast. Alex Kessouta, welcome back. Thank you so much for having me.

1:41.5

And as we said, we're on location London, which is why we are more fancily dressed than normal.

1:46.8

And the set is what the set is. But anyway, welcome to London. It's great to have you back on.

1:53.7

I've been following your writing and the things you say on social media with great interest.

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