Based Camp - June 13, 2024


Why Fertility is Collapsing: Shocking Stats with @MoreBirths


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44 minutes

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183.83334

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8,166

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373

Misogynist Sentences

30

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28


Summary

In this episode, we're joined by the founder of More Births on Twitter, Daniel, to talk about demographic collapse and pernatalism. We talk about the role of marriage and fertility rates, and how they differ across the world.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 This is one thing that's really wonderful about my feed
00:00:02.200 is that you can search at more births for whatever topic
00:00:05.640 and there's a good chance that I will have written about it.
00:00:08.260 No, you are the kind of the reference point encyclopedia.
00:00:11.260 If you need-
00:00:11.760 I really want to-
00:00:13.240 40, oh, this is fascinating.
00:00:14.760 Yeah, 48% of homeschooling households
00:00:16.820 have three or more children.
00:00:19.560 Keep in mind this like 24% happier rating.
00:00:22.340 This is including the terrible marriages.
00:00:25.420 Oh yeah, and good marriages are like off the charts,
00:00:28.480 like double happiness ratings.
00:00:31.200 Oh yeah, oh yeah.
00:00:32.220 Like the gap is just so incredible
00:00:34.180 that it's almost ridiculous
00:00:35.360 that people aren't like knocking down the doors eager for this.
00:00:38.520 And one interesting point is that those guys that got divorced
00:00:42.580 are the ones that are lining up first to get remarried.
00:00:47.080 They're not upset that they were married.
00:00:48.960 They're just upset that it ended
00:00:50.000 and they want to get back into a marriage.
00:00:52.060 Because if you look at the remarriage rate,
00:00:53.780 it's actually very high.
00:00:54.740 In the United States in the current year,
00:00:58.480 interracial marriage is more common
00:01:03.960 than interpolitical marriage.
00:01:07.200 It turns out that the countries that are more,
00:01:11.960 have more hard-coded gender roles
00:01:14.380 have lower fertility rates than countries
00:01:16.540 where men are more willing to help domestically.
00:01:20.320 Would you like to know more?
00:01:21.620 Hello, everybody.
00:01:22.620 Today, we are joined by more births on Twitter,
00:01:25.620 also known to his more close acquaintances,
00:01:29.880 such as ourselves and now you, Daniel.
00:01:32.740 We're super excited to have you, Daniel.
00:01:34.360 And today, because you are the foremost person on Twitter,
00:01:37.840 giving really great graphic-heavy,
00:01:40.100 in-depth threads on Twitter,
00:01:41.840 on demographic collapse and pernatalism,
00:01:43.700 we'd love to discuss the fertility factors
00:01:47.360 that correlate with higher fertility
00:01:50.120 and lower fertility from a behavioral
00:01:51.920 and lifestyle standpoint.
00:01:53.800 Previously, we talked about things
00:01:55.220 that were happening on a national level
00:01:56.820 from a policy and propaganda standpoint,
00:01:59.080 but I think it's really fun
00:02:00.880 to talk about the personal attributes.
00:02:02.600 Malcolm and I have talked a lot
00:02:03.580 about different cultural elements,
00:02:05.440 but what really stands out to you?
00:02:07.120 And what have you talked about at length
00:02:08.280 on Twitter when it comes to factors
00:02:10.480 that correlate with low or high fertility?
00:02:13.640 Yeah.
00:02:13.840 One of the factors that's a really big factor
00:02:16.460 that's not especially talked about is marriage.
00:02:20.860 So that's one thing
00:02:21.840 that's a really big fertility factor.
00:02:24.900 And so part of it is people are just marrying late.
00:02:29.740 And actually, this is a Twitter
00:02:30.500 that I just put out today,
00:02:32.020 but you can see the average age at marriage.
00:02:36.200 Yeah, so here we can see the age at marriage in Europe.
00:02:39.300 And it's like super high everywhere.
00:02:42.420 Oh, so for people who are watching this on audio,
00:02:45.200 like it is actually shocking.
00:02:46.740 Most of the ages are like 33.8 in France,
00:02:50.000 34.8 in Sweden.
00:02:51.800 31.9 in the UK.
00:02:53.740 In Germany, 31.2.
00:02:57.440 In Ireland, 31.9.
00:03:00.200 Like it is, wow.
00:03:01.880 Where'd you get the UK number?
00:03:02.960 I don't see that, Simone.
00:03:04.160 Oh, sorry, I'm looking at Ireland.
00:03:06.000 Silly me, sorry.
00:03:06.780 Yeah, this map doesn't show the UK,
00:03:08.900 but it's, yeah, certainly it's very high in all of Europe.
00:03:11.160 And I'm going to, I want to switch to sharing.
00:03:13.060 The lowest one we're seeing here is 24.9.
00:03:16.340 Malcolm, you and I married at 25 and 26.
00:03:18.780 We were young married people.
00:03:20.700 Yeah, you look at a country like Turkey,
00:03:22.260 it's 25.2.
00:03:23.780 So we were younger than,
00:03:25.560 we would have brought down
00:03:26.820 the average first age in Turkey.
00:03:29.160 Oh.
00:03:29.360 And yeah, that's wild.
00:03:32.200 Yeah.
00:03:32.520 So yeah, I want to actually share something else.
00:03:35.380 That's, I want to share,
00:03:36.480 show this on a world scale
00:03:37.740 so we can see what's going on even more.
00:03:39.860 So here it is.
00:03:40.460 I didn't realize how late it was on average.
00:03:43.480 I'm wondering,
00:03:44.400 maybe this has to do with second marriages.
00:03:46.280 If they're counting every single marriage that happens,
00:03:48.400 maybe when 70 year olds get remarried after they're widowed.
00:03:50.980 Here is the world.
00:03:52.300 Okay.
00:03:53.060 So here we can see first marriage.
00:03:55.600 So you can see how Europe stands out
00:03:58.100 as having these super late marriages.
00:04:00.880 You can see,
00:04:02.000 you can also see that
00:04:03.040 what's the most fertile part of the world
00:04:04.900 and what's the part of the world
00:04:05.960 that has early marriages.
00:04:08.540 Yeah, you go Africa.
00:04:09.400 This is really interesting.
00:04:10.760 So we talk about fertility collapse in Latin America
00:04:13.080 and I think what people would be surprised by here
00:04:16.460 is a good chunk of Latin America
00:04:17.960 has later fertility,
00:04:19.780 later marriages than the United States.
00:04:22.280 Yeah.
00:04:22.800 And most of the developed world
00:04:24.620 has later marriages than the United States.
00:04:26.360 So you're looking at a place like Australia
00:04:28.000 has much later marriages,
00:04:29.400 South Africa.
00:04:30.460 Canada.
00:04:30.780 We're not in a developed country anymore.
00:04:33.020 Britain has super late fertility rates.
00:04:35.580 Chile, very late fertility rates.
00:04:37.320 Brazil, late,
00:04:38.380 sorry, not late fertility rates,
00:04:39.680 late marriage rates.
00:04:40.480 Brazil and Chile are really unique on this graph.
00:04:42.780 They're in like 34, 32 range.
00:04:46.100 That's so interesting.
00:04:47.160 And fertility is dropping all throughout the 20s.
00:04:50.500 So like by the time you're 30,
00:04:51.660 even for a woman,
00:04:53.060 fertility is already like way lower than it was.
00:04:56.080 That's like trying to have kids with a grandmom.
00:05:00.020 Thanks, Malcolm.
00:05:00.860 We have six children,
00:05:05.720 so I'm very fortunate.
00:05:07.840 When my wife was 30,
00:05:09.440 she was 36 or 35 when she had the fifth one
00:05:13.340 and she was 40 when she had the sixth one.
00:05:15.320 But when she was like 30,
00:05:16.500 35 or 36,
00:05:17.860 the doctor called it medically like a geriatric pregnancy.
00:05:20.500 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:05:21.720 Which is,
00:05:22.480 this is the,
00:05:23.060 now this is the age
00:05:24.080 that people are getting married in Europe.
00:05:26.600 Now I do want to,
00:05:28.000 people are instantly going to react in Europe.
00:05:30.000 People don't have to get married to have kids
00:05:31.340 and most people don't.
00:05:32.140 And that's true.
00:05:33.020 Yeah.
00:05:33.440 But nevertheless,
00:05:35.220 it is still true
00:05:37.240 that the odds of getting,
00:05:39.540 of having children are far higher,
00:05:41.160 like four times as high
00:05:42.300 if a couple is married.
00:05:44.700 And this came up in the Swedish data
00:05:46.800 that I think Malcolm and I reviewed
00:05:48.140 in a previous podcast
00:05:49.140 where correlating highly
00:05:50.980 with this drop in fertility rate
00:05:52.500 that now even Sweden is seeing
00:05:53.740 despite their incredibly
00:05:54.760 pro-natalist lifestyles and policies
00:05:56.640 is the cohabitation of couples,
00:06:01.120 but not marriage,
00:06:02.700 which is interesting.
00:06:03.800 Yeah, yeah.
00:06:04.120 So people who say that marriage doesn't matter,
00:06:06.940 like the data does not bear this out.
00:06:09.180 Oh my God,
00:06:10.280 the data on marriage
00:06:11.280 in terms of like life happiness
00:06:12.780 and stuff like that
00:06:13.720 is so high.
00:06:15.080 We did another episode on this
00:06:16.780 and I'll try to pull this up
00:06:17.880 in the research,
00:06:18.560 but I seem to remember
00:06:19.200 it's like the difference
00:06:20.840 between making like 200K extra a year
00:06:23.860 on average.
00:06:24.720 And so if you correlated it
00:06:26.880 with career decisions
00:06:28.080 that people are making
00:06:29.200 instead of getting married,
00:06:31.760 if what they are actually pursuing
00:06:33.440 is happiness,
00:06:34.400 they are making the wrong decision.
00:06:36.860 I think we have to think about
00:06:37.580 what marriage signals too.
00:06:39.020 Marriage signals a level of expectation
00:06:42.600 that you are going to be in this for life.
00:06:46.340 And when you choose to not get married,
00:06:47.740 I think the default assumption
00:06:49.460 is that at some point
00:06:50.800 you're not going to be together.
00:06:52.280 Even couples who marry
00:06:53.520 and then get divorced a year later,
00:06:55.940 they still started out
00:06:57.120 thinking it was going to be forever.
00:06:58.600 And those are the people
00:06:59.460 who are going to commit to having kids.
00:07:01.500 Yeah.
00:07:01.700 And the advantage of marriage
00:07:02.920 like socially is just massive
00:07:04.120 in terms of if you look at happiness,
00:07:06.780 the happiness gap is huge.
00:07:07.840 The wealth gap is huge.
00:07:08.840 The life expectancy gap is enormous.
00:07:12.080 And there's another thing.
00:07:12.900 You have this,
00:07:13.860 it's funny,
00:07:14.660 you have this element
00:07:16.060 of the far right
00:07:17.020 and the far left
00:07:18.000 that are like against marriage.
00:07:19.220 You have the men
00:07:19.820 going on their own way,
00:07:20.780 manosphere types.
00:07:22.060 And then you've got
00:07:22.980 the hardcore feminist types
00:07:25.060 that are both against marriage.
00:07:26.780 Whereas the normies in the middle
00:07:27.820 are like,
00:07:28.240 this is obviously good.
00:07:30.120 But go ahead.
00:07:31.000 I don't, I'm not saying
00:07:31.780 anyone who says marriage is good.
00:07:33.460 It's 12 to 25% higher
00:07:35.800 or 24% higher.
00:07:37.260 What is higher?
00:07:38.160 Happiness ratings
00:07:39.020 among individuals who are married
00:07:40.260 versus ones who aren't.
00:07:41.720 And so-
00:07:42.100 People are talking about that.
00:07:43.080 When I'm on YouTube
00:07:43.660 and I'm just organically
00:07:44.920 letting things autoplay,
00:07:46.720 the messages that I'm getting
00:07:48.020 at least from women
00:07:49.600 is having a husband
00:07:51.740 is like having another child
00:07:53.200 to take care of.
00:07:54.160 They don't provide support
00:07:55.100 or they're going to leave you
00:07:57.100 even if you want to be a trad wife
00:07:58.420 and be supported by them.
00:07:59.780 They're going to dump you
00:08:00.940 and you're going to be on your own
00:08:02.000 and your life's going to be ruined.
00:08:03.200 And we do have
00:08:04.880 fewer disincentives
00:08:06.840 to leave a partner.
00:08:08.400 If your husband has married you
00:08:09.520 because you're attractive,
00:08:10.920 which is a huge problem
00:08:12.180 because women often try
00:08:13.020 to secure husbands
00:08:13.700 for using that.
00:08:15.220 He doesn't really have
00:08:16.720 that much of a reason
00:08:17.520 to not leave you
00:08:18.380 when you become older
00:08:19.520 and that's intrinsically
00:08:20.740 less attractive,
00:08:21.440 which is like a natural
00:08:22.860 process that women go through
00:08:24.480 when your attractiveness
00:08:25.520 is how fertile
00:08:26.280 and genetically healthy
00:08:27.640 a woman looks
00:08:28.240 in a historic context.
00:08:29.460 And historically,
00:08:30.840 the reason why men
00:08:31.520 didn't do this
00:08:32.440 is because when a man
00:08:33.880 left his wife
00:08:34.880 in a historic
00:08:35.880 conservative context,
00:08:37.680 everyone in the community
00:08:38.600 would know that he had
00:08:39.420 left his wife
00:08:40.140 and this would attach
00:08:41.380 a huge negative
00:08:42.520 social modifier
00:08:43.580 to his status
00:08:45.380 as a partner
00:08:46.000 and his status
00:08:46.700 was in the community.
00:08:47.780 Whereas we no longer
00:08:49.040 have these externalities anymore.
00:08:50.900 And then with women,
00:08:51.860 you've got alimony
00:08:52.820 and all sorts of other
00:08:53.940 perverse incentives
00:08:55.640 around potentially
00:08:57.240 leaving a husband
00:08:58.080 and not having
00:08:59.280 as much negative effects
00:09:01.060 as you would have
00:09:01.640 in a historical context
00:09:02.720 because you're still
00:09:03.720 getting the cash flows.
00:09:04.980 Why not leave the husband
00:09:06.260 if you still get the cash flows
00:09:07.400 no matter what you do?
00:09:08.260 It is important
00:09:08.940 to recognize
00:09:09.980 why people are so critical
00:09:12.460 of the institution
00:09:13.640 of marriage today
00:09:14.440 while still pointing out
00:09:15.920 that objectively
00:09:16.740 if you can get into
00:09:17.720 a healthy marriage
00:09:18.720 because keep in mind
00:09:19.960 this like 24% happier rating,
00:09:22.200 this is including
00:09:23.600 the terrible marriages.
00:09:25.320 Oh yeah.
00:09:25.720 And the good marriages
00:09:26.820 are like off the charts,
00:09:28.540 like double happiness ratings.
00:09:31.100 Oh yeah.
00:09:31.760 Oh yeah.
00:09:32.080 Like the gap
00:09:33.020 is just so incredible
00:09:34.060 that it's almost ridiculous
00:09:35.240 that the people
00:09:36.080 aren't like knocking down
00:09:37.420 the doors eager for this.
00:09:38.420 And one interesting point
00:09:39.580 is that divorced men
00:09:41.300 who are supposedly
00:09:42.100 the ones that got burned
00:09:43.140 and wrecked the worst,
00:09:44.540 these are the reason
00:09:45.600 that the MGTOW people
00:09:46.800 are so against marriage
00:09:49.200 because oh,
00:09:49.560 it might end in divorce
00:09:50.400 and then the guy is wrecked.
00:09:51.880 No, those guys
00:09:53.180 that got divorced
00:09:54.200 are the ones
00:09:55.100 that are lining up first
00:09:56.340 to get remarried.
00:09:58.500 So they're not upset
00:09:59.680 that they were married,
00:10:00.580 they're just upset
00:10:01.120 that it ended
00:10:01.620 and they want to get
00:10:02.240 back into a marriage.
00:10:03.760 Because if you look
00:10:04.540 at the remarriage rate,
00:10:05.440 it's actually very high.
00:10:06.520 But I have another chart
00:10:07.660 that I want to share next.
00:10:09.620 Do you know off the top
00:10:11.280 of your head
00:10:11.620 if remarriage rates
00:10:12.440 are higher among men
00:10:14.740 versus women?
00:10:15.680 Yeah, yeah.
00:10:16.040 They are higher among men
00:10:16.980 than among women.
00:10:17.940 That's what the data shows.
00:10:19.500 But the one thing
00:10:21.020 that where women
00:10:22.960 really have a huge benefit
00:10:24.880 from marriage
00:10:25.420 is if you look
00:10:25.980 at household wealth
00:10:27.020 and household income,
00:10:28.760 it's just massively higher
00:10:30.820 for women that are in marriage.
00:10:34.100 There's just so many
00:10:36.600 economic efficiencies
00:10:38.440 in terms of everything.
00:10:40.100 But there is another point
00:10:41.100 that I want to talk about
00:10:42.120 with marriage.
00:10:43.980 There's actually
00:10:44.660 two types of marriage.
00:10:46.420 And so there's like
00:10:47.820 kind of the business
00:10:48.820 type of marriage,
00:10:49.700 which is the marriage
00:10:50.420 that existed
00:10:51.040 until the 20th century.
00:10:53.320 The corporate family.
00:10:55.100 Yes, yes.
00:10:56.820 But this is not a dead model.
00:10:58.420 It's actually
00:10:58.740 a pretty active model.
00:11:00.140 Yeah, totally.
00:11:01.020 If you look at your couple,
00:11:02.140 even I know you guys
00:11:03.160 are quite in love
00:11:03.740 with each other,
00:11:04.320 but also.
00:11:06.020 We also decided
00:11:07.280 to get married
00:11:07.800 when we knew
00:11:08.260 we weren't in love
00:11:09.060 and that was crucial.
00:11:10.160 You also have a,
00:11:11.000 you're a mission
00:11:11.520 driven marriage.
00:11:12.800 Yeah, we are a corporate
00:11:13.840 marriage first and foremost.
00:11:15.260 The concept of marrying
00:11:16.020 for love or for,
00:11:17.200 it's one of the crazy things
00:11:18.740 is we tried
00:11:19.460 to matchmake people, right?
00:11:21.180 And they'd be like,
00:11:22.060 we're like, look,
00:11:22.680 we've done like a deep dive
00:11:24.120 on all of your personal history,
00:11:25.660 everything like that,
00:11:26.580 your class status,
00:11:27.700 everything.
00:11:28.480 You've got an amazing couple
00:11:30.100 and they look at the picture
00:11:31.440 of the person
00:11:32.080 and they're like,
00:11:33.720 oh, I'm not interested.
00:11:34.740 And I'm like,
00:11:35.300 excuse me,
00:11:35.860 this isn't a prostitute.
00:11:37.540 This is someone you're marrying.
00:11:38.920 How arousing you find them
00:11:40.680 is next to irrelevant.
00:11:42.760 And they've been taught,
00:11:43.940 they're like, no,
00:11:45.160 sex is very important.
00:11:46.520 I've learned that from what?
00:11:48.660 Where did you learn that from?
00:11:50.000 You learn that from these stupid
00:11:51.580 status hierarchies
00:11:52.720 that you're competing in.
00:11:54.000 But at an objective level,
00:11:55.780 if you choose your partner
00:11:57.200 and how arousing they are
00:11:59.200 is a huge part
00:12:00.300 of why you are choosing them,
00:12:01.920 you are going to be
00:12:03.000 dramatically less happy
00:12:04.780 and less productive.
00:12:06.940 And your kids
00:12:08.020 are going to be less efficacious
00:12:09.440 than you would have been
00:12:10.580 had you just approached
00:12:11.660 this like a sane person.
00:12:12.900 And we're not like serving people,
00:12:14.780 individuals who are way
00:12:16.060 out of their league or something.
00:12:17.000 These are people
00:12:18.580 who just are not
00:12:19.640 their perfect aesthetic
00:12:21.300 where the way
00:12:22.720 you should really
00:12:23.280 be approaching marriage
00:12:24.160 is anyone who's like
00:12:25.640 above a bottom bar
00:12:27.420 of I would have sex
00:12:28.560 with that person
00:12:29.320 should be easily
00:12:30.620 in the category of marriage.
00:12:33.160 Anyway.
00:12:34.000 What, Daniel,
00:12:34.600 is your second type of marriage?
00:12:36.220 Okay, so the second one
00:12:37.300 is called companionate marriage.
00:12:39.240 And so actually,
00:12:39.860 this is an interesting thing
00:12:41.140 because most people
00:12:41.740 don't realize this,
00:12:43.240 but the original
00:12:44.220 fertility collapse
00:12:45.380 in America
00:12:46.120 was like before,
00:12:49.140 like long before the pill.
00:12:50.220 Like America
00:12:50.700 and like all of Western Europe
00:12:52.120 were actually below
00:12:53.160 replacement level
00:12:54.460 in the 1930s.
00:12:55.540 And you have to remember,
00:12:56.300 by the way,
00:12:57.280 that replacement level fertility
00:12:58.840 was higher than 2.1 back then.
00:13:01.260 It was probably like 2.5
00:13:02.300 or something.
00:13:02.720 Right, with all the deaths.
00:13:03.700 With higher,
00:13:05.160 like infant and child mortality
00:13:06.360 and stuff like that.
00:13:07.420 So like Europe
00:13:08.880 and America
00:13:09.540 were below
00:13:10.300 replacement fertility
00:13:11.600 like in the 1930s.
00:13:12.800 Imagine that.
00:13:13.260 And what caused that
00:13:14.600 was the transition
00:13:16.120 from this corporate
00:13:16.960 or like the view
00:13:19.060 of marriage,
00:13:19.760 of a household
00:13:20.880 as like a business
00:13:21.800 and as a purposeful
00:13:23.060 like mission-driven thing
00:13:24.800 to like companionate marriage,
00:13:27.960 which is actually,
00:13:29.620 you know,
00:13:29.860 because there's a ton of ways
00:13:31.580 actually people think,
00:13:33.460 oh, it's just modern birth control.
00:13:34.560 People have been able
00:13:35.100 to control their fertility
00:13:35.940 for like thousands of years.
00:13:38.040 The reason that Rome collapsed
00:13:39.720 almost certainly,
00:13:40.400 and I have a Christmas Day thread
00:13:42.140 that's awesome.
00:13:43.080 I just popped that out there
00:13:44.120 and it got like
00:13:45.140 a couple hundred thousand views.
00:13:46.460 Like I just,
00:13:46.920 I came home,
00:13:47.680 I came downstairs
00:13:48.340 like to the presence
00:13:49.200 just a little bit late
00:13:50.120 so that I could pop out
00:13:51.280 that thread.
00:13:52.340 And then,
00:13:52.720 but it was mad,
00:13:53.320 because it was like
00:13:54.060 talking about the fall of Rome,
00:13:55.060 which is like on every person's mind,
00:13:56.440 right?
00:13:56.600 Every man's mind.
00:13:58.240 Every man's mind.
00:13:59.480 Yeah, it was actually
00:14:00.600 fertility collapse
00:14:01.500 in Rome
00:14:02.400 like back then.
00:14:03.880 And we know
00:14:04.460 because the leaders of Rome
00:14:05.560 were trying really hard
00:14:06.540 to encourage fertility,
00:14:07.820 but people,
00:14:08.480 the Roman leaders
00:14:09.100 were able to,
00:14:09.860 they were trying to pass laws
00:14:12.300 to encourage people
00:14:13.060 to have more children,
00:14:13.640 but people were able
00:14:14.340 to control their fertility
00:14:15.260 very easily
00:14:16.460 through withdrawal
00:14:17.800 as people have known
00:14:18.700 about withdrawal
00:14:19.300 since probably like
00:14:20.220 caveman times probably.
00:14:22.320 And also,
00:14:22.980 they would leave the babies
00:14:23.800 on hillside.
00:14:24.420 So there are all sorts of things.
00:14:25.440 Oh, there are loads
00:14:27.420 of interventions.
00:14:28.540 Of hedonism,
00:14:29.560 there's less reasons
00:14:30.780 for cultural practices
00:14:32.920 that you inherited
00:14:34.300 from your ancestors
00:14:35.100 to be followed
00:14:35.840 because they can seem
00:14:36.820 pretty pointless
00:14:37.440 and they will endanger
00:14:38.840 hedonistic pursuits
00:14:40.740 and mindsets.
00:14:42.360 And cross-culturally,
00:14:43.440 whenever you have
00:14:44.020 a time of prosperity,
00:14:45.600 you often abandon
00:14:46.840 many of the old ways
00:14:48.140 which motivate things
00:14:49.200 like kids have value
00:14:50.600 and stuff like that
00:14:51.540 as concepts.
00:14:53.500 And yeah,
00:14:54.320 we do see this in Rome
00:14:55.260 as you pointed out.
00:14:56.280 Okay, so something new,
00:14:57.120 something different
00:14:57.520 I want to point out next.
00:14:58.620 Here's a new visual.
00:14:59.640 This is probably something
00:15:00.920 that you guys have seen.
00:15:02.640 Here we go.
00:15:03.500 This visual was created
00:15:04.460 by John Byrne Murdoch
00:15:05.560 over in the UK.
00:15:07.540 Oh, we did an episode on this.
00:15:08.800 This went super viral.
00:15:10.340 You know that,
00:15:11.200 so here's an interesting fact.
00:15:13.180 Like in the United States
00:15:15.740 in the current year,
00:15:18.080 interracial marriage
00:15:20.360 is more common
00:15:22.360 than interpolitical marriage.
00:15:25.980 Oh!
00:15:27.060 That's interesting, right?
00:15:28.620 Yes, and it's interesting
00:15:29.700 when you consider
00:15:30.200 that for every conservative man,
00:15:32.520 like if you're out there dating
00:15:33.420 and you're a conservative man,
00:15:34.640 there are more than
00:15:36.120 two conservative men
00:15:37.280 fighting over
00:15:37.740 every conservative woman,
00:15:38.780 and there's more than
00:15:39.660 two Democratic women
00:15:40.960 fighting over
00:15:41.540 every Democratic man.
00:15:42.800 That's wild.
00:15:43.380 So I would say
00:15:44.600 my recommendation
00:15:45.740 for my daughters
00:15:46.840 would be
00:15:47.300 become a hardcore conservative.
00:15:49.260 My recommendation
00:15:49.980 for my sons
00:15:50.780 would be to
00:15:51.400 hide any conservatism
00:15:53.660 and show moderation.
00:15:56.820 So just
00:15:57.400 sheerly by the numbers,
00:15:58.940 but here's another...
00:16:00.100 Yeah, that's actually
00:16:00.780 really solid dating advice.
00:16:02.440 Now here's another piece of...
00:16:03.540 I don't...
00:16:04.540 Malcolm, you coded
00:16:07.100 as broadly progressive
00:16:08.940 when I met you.
00:16:10.020 I agree.
00:16:10.980 So what?
00:16:11.400 Find the conservative genotypes
00:16:13.040 in the progressive population?
00:16:16.100 Okay, here I want to show
00:16:17.440 like another chart.
00:16:18.420 What this shows is
00:16:19.520 how the time
00:16:21.480 that men
00:16:22.020 invest in household chores.
00:16:24.860 So this is one way
00:16:25.920 of bridging
00:16:26.700 the kind of
00:16:27.300 the cultural gap
00:16:28.320 between men and women.
00:16:29.240 Men and women
00:16:29.800 have got to get along
00:16:30.920 if you're going to have children,
00:16:32.660 obviously.
00:16:33.420 It turns out
00:16:34.440 that the countries
00:16:35.540 have more
00:16:38.880 hard-coded
00:16:39.760 gender roles,
00:16:41.000 which would be like
00:16:41.640 Japan, South Korea, Italy.
00:16:43.440 The term machismo
00:16:44.220 is an Italian word,
00:16:46.000 I think.
00:16:46.600 These countries
00:16:47.220 have lower fertility rates
00:16:48.360 than countries
00:16:49.160 where men are more
00:16:50.240 willing to help domestically.
00:16:53.460 And so this is something...
00:16:55.160 I hadn't seen this before,
00:16:56.040 but this makes perfect sense.
00:16:57.480 And it's something
00:16:57.940 that a lot of
00:16:58.700 conservative guys
00:16:59.860 misunderstand.
00:17:00.920 They're like this
00:17:01.480 get-in-the-kitchen attitude.
00:17:03.280 They think this leads
00:17:04.580 to high fertility rates.
00:17:05.660 And I'm like,
00:17:05.940 it objectively does not.
00:17:07.520 If anything,
00:17:08.020 it is what is causing
00:17:09.020 South Korea's
00:17:10.000 fertility collapse
00:17:10.780 because no woman
00:17:11.940 wants to get married
00:17:12.660 under these terms.
00:17:13.460 Oh, yeah.
00:17:13.740 Yeah.
00:17:13.880 In South Korea,
00:17:14.480 there's like a term for it.
00:17:15.840 I forget what it is,
00:17:16.780 but it's like the three no's.
00:17:18.220 It's no marriage.
00:17:18.800 Four no's.
00:17:19.640 Four no's.
00:17:20.480 Oh, geez.
00:17:20.840 There's four now.
00:17:21.980 It might be three.
00:17:23.200 It's no marriage,
00:17:23.840 no sex, no kids.
00:17:24.760 And I think that there's
00:17:25.440 a fourth one,
00:17:26.080 but I could be wrong.
00:17:26.520 I don't know.
00:17:26.760 Anyway, yeah.
00:17:27.360 These are women
00:17:28.080 that are just
00:17:28.560 straight on strike.
00:17:29.820 Now, what is manlier
00:17:30.800 to refuse to do dishes
00:17:32.100 and have no children
00:17:33.060 or be there as a guy
00:17:34.580 like in the kitchen
00:17:35.300 helping out
00:17:36.020 and then have a bunch of kids?
00:17:38.700 It's no sex,
00:17:39.960 child-rearing,
00:17:40.680 dating, or marriage.
00:17:41.680 Yeah, it's no sex.
00:17:42.960 Yeah, no sex,
00:17:43.940 child-rearing,
00:17:44.400 yeah, dating, marriage.
00:17:45.240 And I have a personal
00:17:46.180 anecdote related to that.
00:17:48.460 After four kids,
00:17:49.620 I received an ultimatum
00:17:50.940 from my wife.
00:17:52.020 No more kids.
00:17:52.780 We're done
00:17:53.240 unless you start
00:17:54.460 helping around the house.
00:17:56.200 Actually, there's a big gap
00:17:57.320 between number four
00:17:58.660 and number five and six.
00:17:59.420 I had to,
00:17:59.960 because I thought
00:18:00.400 I'm the breadwinner.
00:18:02.720 My wife is taking care
00:18:03.560 of the kids.
00:18:04.120 I was like,
00:18:04.760 I'm doing my part.
00:18:05.560 I'm done.
00:18:06.300 I've checked off my box.
00:18:08.040 And I got that ultimatum
00:18:09.380 and I had to learn
00:18:10.300 to be a lot more domestic.
00:18:12.400 I do a lot of laundry.
00:18:14.700 I do all the grocery shopping.
00:18:16.380 I do all sorts
00:18:17.420 of house cleaning
00:18:18.120 and cooking.
00:18:19.440 And then my wife
00:18:20.540 was willing
00:18:21.780 to have two more
00:18:22.600 and now we're at six.
00:18:24.300 That's really interesting.
00:18:25.260 So like the marginal
00:18:26.080 investment needed
00:18:27.400 from you
00:18:28.200 in terms of
00:18:29.160 supplementary care
00:18:30.580 became higher
00:18:31.440 after a certain number
00:18:32.720 of kids.
00:18:33.760 Yeah, there were,
00:18:34.300 there's two aspects to it.
00:18:35.820 One is like the raw
00:18:36.680 amount of help
00:18:37.560 and the fact that
00:18:38.540 taking off the load.
00:18:39.740 So that certainly
00:18:40.600 made it easier.
00:18:41.460 But the other part
00:18:42.300 is when there's
00:18:44.280 a cold gender dynamic,
00:18:45.940 when there's conflict
00:18:46.880 in the gender domain,
00:18:48.960 in the,
00:18:49.640 then that's gonna
00:18:50.540 lower fertility.
00:18:52.160 and what the guy
00:18:53.240 can do
00:18:53.780 to soften that
00:18:54.540 and fix that
00:18:55.160 is to start
00:18:56.020 helping domestically
00:18:56.920 or help
00:18:57.540 in whatever ways
00:18:58.600 they can.
00:18:59.160 And all large families
00:19:00.120 know that it's
00:19:01.420 all hands on deck
00:19:02.240 and it's not,
00:19:03.060 it's whatever works
00:19:04.220 and what,
00:19:04.600 if somebody is good
00:19:05.660 at some particular thing,
00:19:06.940 then they can do that
00:19:08.200 regardless of
00:19:08.880 traditional gender roles.
00:19:09.860 So it's,
00:19:10.560 I think that the best
00:19:12.420 philosophy
00:19:13.400 for what kind
00:19:14.160 of household you have
00:19:15.000 or what kind
00:19:15.320 of dynamic
00:19:15.680 should you have
00:19:16.520 is whatever works.
00:19:18.400 Yeah, totally.
00:19:19.260 Yeah.
00:19:19.500 In our household,
00:19:20.300 I do all the inside
00:19:21.940 housekeeping,
00:19:23.280 Malcolm does all
00:19:23.760 the outside housekeeping,
00:19:25.120 I get any,
00:19:26.500 I do the,
00:19:27.120 obviously all the pregnancies
00:19:28.360 and then any infant
00:19:29.620 and he gets
00:19:30.360 all the older ones.
00:19:31.140 Every kid other
00:19:32.120 than the youngest
00:19:32.800 is my responsibility.
00:19:34.300 So as you can see,
00:19:35.400 Malcolm's taking
00:19:36.020 on the lion's chair.
00:19:37.040 No, I don't think so.
00:19:38.260 And there is no answer.
00:19:39.820 There's no right answer.
00:19:40.760 It's just like
00:19:41.420 what every couple
00:19:43.060 is gonna find
00:19:43.760 that like what
00:19:44.280 they're comfortable with
00:19:45.160 and what they're good at.
00:19:46.360 It may break along
00:19:47.580 traditional gender lines.
00:19:49.660 It may break
00:19:50.180 totally opposite there,
00:19:52.240 but it,
00:19:53.060 that's.
00:19:53.640 But the get in the kitchen
00:19:55.080 mindset is sterilizing.
00:19:57.100 Oh yeah, absolutely.
00:19:57.700 And it's something
00:19:57.800 that so many guys
00:19:59.200 think that they look
00:20:00.080 so cool for doing
00:20:01.500 and it's like
00:20:01.880 you don't look cool.
00:20:02.480 Well, I appreciate too
00:20:03.680 that you pointed out
00:20:04.840 the birth control argument
00:20:06.020 because it's both
00:20:06.620 the get in the kitchen argument
00:20:07.920 and the birth control argument
00:20:09.180 that we hear so much
00:20:10.400 from misguided people
00:20:12.160 talking about pronatalism
00:20:14.160 and it just drives me so nuts
00:20:15.800 because to your point,
00:20:16.920 yeah, people totally had ways
00:20:18.220 of not having kids
00:20:19.460 and that has existed
00:20:21.640 for a long time
00:20:22.480 and no birth control
00:20:23.480 was not the death knell.
00:20:24.520 There are a lot
00:20:24.920 of other cultural factors,
00:20:26.520 but what would you else,
00:20:28.140 what other factors?
00:20:29.180 Okay, so let's go,
00:20:30.080 let's jump to something
00:20:31.120 completely different.
00:20:32.240 Yeah.
00:20:32.600 Which is,
00:20:33.080 which I want to talk about,
00:20:33.860 which is housing.
00:20:34.840 So let me pull up
00:20:35.860 another visual.
00:20:36.420 This is great
00:20:37.100 because there's a huge
00:20:37.960 correlation between
00:20:39.300 YIMBY people
00:20:40.200 and pronatalists
00:20:41.040 we've noticed.
00:20:41.940 We're not really sure why
00:20:43.260 because we haven't,
00:20:44.600 we don't see a whole lot of-
00:20:46.160 They're both like practical,
00:20:47.760 real, obvious solutions
00:20:49.180 that you can implement
00:20:50.160 that make things better
00:20:51.180 in society.
00:20:52.140 Yeah.
00:20:52.560 But the YIMBYism is,
00:20:54.860 or people who don't know YIMBYism
00:20:56.200 means yes,
00:20:56.720 in my backyard,
00:20:57.700 they're trying to loosen
00:20:58.620 restrictions on development
00:21:00.340 to get less expensive houses
00:21:01.780 and they want to
00:21:02.880 cross-correlate these things
00:21:04.000 and I don't think
00:21:04.580 that they're highly
00:21:05.060 cross-correlated at all.
00:21:06.540 But maybe Daniel,
00:21:07.340 you can change your mind.
00:21:08.080 Okay, so I have,
00:21:09.680 yeah,
00:21:09.900 this is an issue
00:21:11.160 that I have
00:21:11.600 and I have a strong
00:21:12.320 disagreement actually.
00:21:14.880 I love that.
00:21:15.720 That's our favorite.
00:21:16.580 Okay, here we go.
00:21:17.320 This is a,
00:21:18.080 this is,
00:21:18.440 so what we're looking
00:21:19.220 right now is Macau.
00:21:20.780 Okay, this is Macau.
00:21:21.940 Its fertility is like 0.6
00:21:23.560 or something.
00:21:25.240 It's like insanely low.
00:21:26.200 It's like one of these
00:21:26.720 insanely low places
00:21:27.900 just like Seoul
00:21:28.700 and Shanghai
00:21:30.120 and Beijing
00:21:30.720 and Bangkok
00:21:31.700 and places like this.
00:21:33.140 So this is my,
00:21:34.540 I have a very sharp
00:21:35.400 disagreement with
00:21:36.380 Brian Kaplan.
00:21:37.480 I know he's got this
00:21:38.100 new book coming out
00:21:38.940 and he's a YIMBY guy.
00:21:40.600 He's got rid of all
00:21:41.260 zoning.
00:21:42.100 Yeah.
00:21:42.440 But I think you have
00:21:43.380 to be very careful
00:21:45.760 because it matters
00:21:46.900 dramatically
00:21:47.900 what you build
00:21:49.540 because this,
00:21:50.660 if you build
00:21:51.020 an apartment tower,
00:21:52.680 that could be around
00:21:53.740 for a hundred years.
00:21:55.760 And so one of my posts,
00:21:58.400 the density
00:21:59.220 is intensely correlated
00:22:00.780 with fertility
00:22:01.500 like all the way
00:22:02.260 up and down the spectrum.
00:22:03.660 So let me share
00:22:04.380 something else next,
00:22:06.100 a kind of a contrast.
00:22:07.900 Let me see.
00:22:08.940 Here we go.
00:22:09.540 Now,
00:22:10.100 how does that look?
00:22:13.300 Now we're looking
00:22:14.040 at a picture
00:22:14.480 of a typical
00:22:16.300 suburban neighborhood.
00:22:18.180 This is Atlanta.
00:22:18.920 So the fertility,
00:22:20.220 so usually
00:22:21.300 what we see
00:22:21.940 in the world,
00:22:22.280 and this is one
00:22:22.700 of the most
00:22:23.080 strong correlations
00:22:24.220 in all of demography,
00:22:27.260 it's the denser
00:22:28.260 you get,
00:22:28.860 the lower
00:22:29.380 the fertility is.
00:22:30.300 Yeah,
00:22:31.160 and I think
00:22:31.540 Emil Kierkegaard
00:22:32.260 has done
00:22:32.680 some interesting
00:22:33.300 blog posts
00:22:33.920 on how cities
00:22:35.060 for a very long time
00:22:36.220 have been fertility
00:22:36.960 shredders,
00:22:37.580 how for ages and ages.
00:22:39.140 IQ shredders
00:22:39.780 is the term.
00:22:40.380 No,
00:22:40.540 but for him
00:22:40.920 fertility shredders,
00:22:41.660 he talks about.
00:22:42.300 We've heard the term
00:22:42.800 on the internet
00:22:43.340 that's been floating
00:22:43.820 around for 15 years
00:22:44.680 is IQ shredders
00:22:45.860 because the cities
00:22:46.920 draw in the smartest people
00:22:48.160 for economic purposes
00:22:49.960 and then they don't
00:22:50.520 have children.
00:22:51.360 Yeah,
00:22:51.680 but just think
00:22:52.120 with high fertility groups.
00:22:53.060 So America
00:22:53.700 has the answer.
00:22:55.280 We know the answer
00:22:56.160 that I think
00:22:56.780 one of the greatest
00:22:57.320 inventions
00:22:57.840 that America has had
00:22:59.140 is like the suburbs
00:23:01.140 because the suburbs
00:23:02.600 can let people
00:23:03.980 have space
00:23:04.780 and a yard.
00:23:07.200 Oh,
00:23:07.400 the Yemi people
00:23:08.040 wouldn't like
00:23:08.480 this is the answer.
00:23:09.560 Uh-oh,
00:23:09.940 no,
00:23:10.160 there's this kind of
00:23:10.700 urban sprawl.
00:23:11.860 No,
00:23:12.060 it's a wonderful thing.
00:23:13.280 God bless urban sprawl.
00:23:14.480 Like seriously,
00:23:15.460 we have to,
00:23:16.180 like pronatalists
00:23:16.920 have to understand this
00:23:18.060 because the correlation
00:23:19.080 is so incredibly strong.
00:23:21.260 Like one reason,
00:23:22.480 and I was in Japan
00:23:23.320 with my family
00:23:24.880 in September
00:23:25.540 and I got,
00:23:26.840 we were staying
00:23:27.300 on the outskirts of Tokyo.
00:23:28.400 We rent,
00:23:28.940 Airbnb is a thing
00:23:29.800 in Japan
00:23:30.640 and also,
00:23:31.000 and if you have
00:23:31.320 a big family
00:23:31.800 like we do,
00:23:32.640 you have to rent a house.
00:23:34.040 You can't be staying
00:23:34.760 in a hotel.
00:23:35.100 Anyway,
00:23:35.400 but we were,
00:23:36.160 so I got to see
00:23:37.300 Tokyo and Japan
00:23:38.640 up close
00:23:39.460 and the urban landscape
00:23:43.040 is the reason
00:23:44.080 that it's almost impossible
00:23:45.340 for,
00:23:45.840 because Japan
00:23:46.840 is actually
00:23:47.320 extremely pronatalist now.
00:23:49.240 Like they have been
00:23:49.820 trying to be pronatalist
00:23:50.800 for 30 years
00:23:51.440 and people in Japan
00:23:53.440 are really positive
00:23:54.440 on kids,
00:23:55.760 but Japan
00:23:56.120 has this problem
00:23:57.180 which is that
00:23:58.380 Tokyo
00:23:59.140 is like a sea
00:24:00.700 of urban high rises
00:24:02.300 and that like structure
00:24:04.820 just has,
00:24:06.180 is associated
00:24:06.740 with super low fertility.
00:24:08.120 So that's one dynamic
00:24:09.980 and the other dynamic
00:24:10.920 is that all the young people
00:24:12.520 are just drawn to Tokyo
00:24:13.880 and so they just keep
00:24:16.440 coming to Tokyo
00:24:17.480 where they go on
00:24:18.560 to have like very small families
00:24:20.020 and meanwhile
00:24:21.280 in the countryside of Japan,
00:24:23.280 like there are
00:24:23.860 all these suburban looking houses
00:24:25.640 in the beautiful Japanese countryside
00:24:27.020 that like are available
00:24:30.480 for a song,
00:24:31.340 like they're practically
00:24:31.980 giving them away,
00:24:32.900 but nobody wants to live there
00:24:34.100 because everybody's drawn
00:24:34.820 to these urban high rises
00:24:35.900 and so it's like
00:24:36.980 this elevator effect
00:24:37.980 or this,
00:24:38.920 everybody's just drawn
00:24:39.740 into the city
00:24:40.420 where they keep having
00:24:41.220 low fertility.
00:24:41.880 The TFR in Tokyo
00:24:43.280 is like 1.0
00:24:44.120 and this is,
00:24:45.020 you have to understand
00:24:45.640 that this is now
00:24:46.240 a very pronatal culture
00:24:47.320 and still,
00:24:48.180 because of the urban architecture,
00:24:49.540 they can't,
00:24:50.040 they can't break through.
00:24:51.440 So what I,
00:24:52.860 what's wonderful
00:24:53.580 about the suburbs
00:24:54.300 is that people
00:24:54.920 are still integrated
00:24:56.360 with the urban economy.
00:24:57.920 They can still be connected
00:24:59.140 with the urban economy
00:25:00.100 but they're not
00:25:00.740 in these urban high rises
00:25:03.440 and that,
00:25:04.960 the density.
00:25:05.320 So I,
00:25:05.780 I'd promote
00:25:06.460 a totally different answer.
00:25:08.100 I think exurbs
00:25:09.820 and building up
00:25:10.760 the exurbs
00:25:11.340 of the post office economy.
00:25:15.880 Okay, yes.
00:25:16.420 So yeah,
00:25:16.860 I think what,
00:25:17.440 what Daniel's talking about here
00:25:19.100 and also I have to,
00:25:20.500 I'll find a link
00:25:20.980 to the Emil Kierkegaard
00:25:22.420 Substack article
00:25:23.300 where he talks about this
00:25:24.180 and he does talk about
00:25:24.880 what distance from cities
00:25:26.000 is optimal
00:25:26.820 because that's the question,
00:25:28.520 right?
00:25:28.720 Like where does
00:25:29.280 It's respect to the human farmer.
00:25:31.240 Yeah.
00:25:31.460 Everyone needs to own
00:25:32.540 their plot of land
00:25:33.560 where they can grow food
00:25:34.860 and can commute to the city
00:25:37.260 once a month
00:25:38.880 if they need to.
00:25:39.660 But yeah,
00:25:40.060 what you're saying though
00:25:40.820 is based on where we're going
00:25:42.600 with the economy
00:25:44.780 that in the end
00:25:46.100 being even further away.
00:25:47.720 And here's another chart
00:25:48.660 that we can put on the screen
00:25:50.700 if you like.
00:25:51.120 This is actually
00:25:51.680 by the Institute
00:25:52.280 for Family Studies
00:25:53.100 which is awesome
00:25:53.820 because you can find
00:25:54.680 so much,
00:25:56.000 such a wealth of data
00:25:56.900 on all the fertility factors
00:25:58.060 but here what we're looking at
00:25:59.080 is the fertility
00:25:59.840 for rural suburbs
00:26:01.940 and city center.
00:26:03.600 So the fertility
00:26:04.360 is far higher
00:26:05.220 for rural
00:26:05.940 than the suburbs
00:26:08.900 which is far higher
00:26:10.020 than the city center.
00:26:12.620 So like the less dense
00:26:14.160 you can have
00:26:14.920 the better it is
00:26:15.820 for fertility.
00:26:16.760 And this seems
00:26:17.620 this seems to be
00:26:18.500 like such a robust relationship.
00:26:20.160 This is like one
00:26:20.660 of the iron laws
00:26:21.360 of demography
00:26:22.020 is the more urbanized
00:26:24.000 the lower the fertility.
00:26:25.400 So that's a major factor.
00:26:26.900 Yeah,
00:26:27.260 so in our favor Malcolm.
00:26:29.280 Yeah.
00:26:29.660 So the further out
00:26:30.480 you can get
00:26:31.080 you know,
00:26:31.580 and work from home
00:26:32.280 is also a wonderful factor
00:26:33.440 for this reason.
00:26:34.280 So if part of it
00:26:34.920 is like the burden
00:26:35.560 of child care
00:26:36.180 if you like
00:26:36.940 one problem in Korea
00:26:37.960 is that people have to
00:26:39.060 have a hundred activities
00:26:40.380 for their kids
00:26:41.000 and child care
00:26:41.920 is so difficult.
00:26:42.940 But if you just
00:26:44.100 have a house
00:26:44.640 with a yard
00:26:45.180 the kids can just
00:26:45.840 be out in the yard
00:26:47.320 like bouncing around
00:26:48.220 on the trampoline
00:26:48.960 or playing with
00:26:50.060 playing in the backyard
00:26:50.880 and you don't even
00:26:51.460 have to supervise them much
00:26:52.680 because they can just play
00:26:53.880 and they're with an earshot
00:26:55.300 and it just
00:26:56.560 incredibly lowers
00:26:57.740 the burden
00:26:58.280 and there's also
00:26:58.780 like the psychological
00:26:59.580 effect of feeling
00:27:00.820 crowded.
00:27:01.680 The mouse experiment,
00:27:02.820 right?
00:27:03.400 Yeah, the mouse
00:27:04.080 utopia experiments
00:27:04.840 continue.
00:27:05.280 Yeah, yeah.
00:27:05.640 So the denser it is
00:27:06.820 like density itself
00:27:08.300 has a really negative
00:27:09.620 psychological impact.
00:27:11.480 And I don't think
00:27:12.420 that these dent centers
00:27:13.360 economically make sense
00:27:14.740 anymore.
00:27:16.360 They have become
00:27:17.220 economically
00:27:18.000 unrealistic
00:27:19.360 and a lot of people
00:27:20.100 are like, what?
00:27:21.020 No, there's so many
00:27:22.040 efficiency gains
00:27:23.060 and it's like, yeah,
00:27:23.800 but all the efficiency
00:27:24.760 gains are offset
00:27:25.700 by how progressive
00:27:26.580 they become
00:27:27.220 which ends up
00:27:28.080 creating these
00:27:28.660 giant bureaucracies
00:27:29.700 which ends up
00:27:30.660 making them
00:27:31.120 less efficient
00:27:32.020 than less urban areas.
00:27:34.460 So on paper
00:27:35.280 they look more efficient
00:27:36.400 but because they
00:27:37.840 allow and encourage
00:27:39.520 this ultra-progressive
00:27:41.880 mindset
00:27:42.340 they become
00:27:43.220 less efficient.
00:27:44.520 Yeah, so this is
00:27:45.020 something I want to show
00:27:45.660 here's another thing
00:27:46.660 here's just a quick
00:27:47.820 thing related to density
00:27:48.760 here.
00:27:49.040 This is a map of
00:27:49.620 South Korea by density
00:27:50.700 and here
00:27:52.200 people in South Korea
00:27:54.060 are concentrating
00:27:55.280 and people talk
00:27:56.820 about South Korea
00:27:57.380 oh, they have no choice
00:27:58.780 it's a tiny country
00:27:59.720 that's going to be dense.
00:28:01.340 No, it's actually
00:28:01.860 by choice
00:28:02.460 because so much
00:28:04.360 of South Korea
00:28:04.920 is like empty.
00:28:06.200 It's not just
00:28:06.600 by choice
00:28:06.960 it's by culture.
00:28:07.660 One of the weirdest
00:28:08.340 things about South Korea
00:28:09.400 is if you drive
00:28:10.420 outside of the major cities
00:28:11.760 when you see
00:28:13.400 the suburban towns
00:28:15.960 what you will see
00:28:17.500 is a cluster
00:28:18.260 of skyscrapers
00:28:19.540 next to each other
00:28:20.440 and then nothing else.
00:28:23.080 It is the most
00:28:24.180 bizarre thing
00:28:25.240 you have ever seen.
00:28:26.300 Yeah, three high-rises
00:28:27.180 and a mall complex.
00:28:28.980 So this is a terrible
00:28:30.360 this is
00:28:31.000 because
00:28:31.360 yeah, so this
00:28:33.100 I think Brian Kaplan
00:28:34.180 is making a big mistake
00:28:35.300 with his book.
00:28:35.980 I think it's
00:28:36.640 that's my position
00:28:37.660 and I'm sticking
00:28:38.240 for it for now
00:28:38.900 because
00:28:39.180 yeah, because
00:28:41.080 he's actually
00:28:41.620 a pronatalist
00:28:42.480 but he's got
00:28:43.820 he had that book
00:28:44.580 I think I even
00:28:45.100 have it on my shelf
00:28:45.940 Selfish Reasons
00:28:46.920 to Have More Kids
00:28:47.640 Yeah, here it is
00:28:48.260 right here
00:28:48.680 here we go
00:28:49.140 there it is
00:28:50.860 you're saying
00:28:52.480 that these buildings
00:28:53.500 will be here
00:28:54.080 for 100 years
00:28:55.300 no, they'll be
00:28:56.040 rotting in 100 years
00:28:56.920 look up like
00:28:57.640 Detroit Blight Porn
00:28:58.880 I'll add some to this
00:28:59.860 I know
00:29:00.640 this is an interesting
00:29:01.660 thing because actually
00:29:02.580 if you look at Japan
00:29:03.380 and I was just there
00:29:04.260 it's not
00:29:05.360 even though the TFR
00:29:07.880 in Tokyo
00:29:09.040 is the lowest
00:29:09.720 in all of Japan
00:29:10.860 like Tokyo
00:29:12.400 is full of people
00:29:13.200 because people are like
00:29:14.120 coming out from the
00:29:15.300 countryside
00:29:15.760 and it's actually
00:29:17.100 the country where
00:29:17.820 the countryside
00:29:18.420 where the fertility rate
00:29:19.640 is higher
00:29:20.280 that is empty
00:29:21.900 in Japan
00:29:22.620 because everybody
00:29:23.700 keeps flocking
00:29:25.060 to the cities
00:29:25.720 so actually
00:29:26.420 it's the countryside
00:29:27.360 where the fertility rate
00:29:28.380 is higher
00:29:28.740 that actually
00:29:29.220 will give you
00:29:29.940 the despair porn
00:29:30.800 in Japan
00:29:32.140 of all the rotting
00:29:33.920 houses
00:29:34.560 which is ironic
00:29:35.940 so it's not
00:29:36.720 necessarily true
00:29:37.780 that the places
00:29:39.000 that have the lowest
00:29:39.720 fertility rate
00:29:40.600 are going to be
00:29:41.020 the places
00:29:41.580 that empty out
00:29:42.220 because people
00:29:42.660 keep being drawn
00:29:44.220 to the city
00:29:44.700 so I think
00:29:45.240 if I was actually
00:29:46.380 if I was king of Korea
00:29:47.980 if they still
00:29:49.160 imagine they still
00:29:49.760 have kings
00:29:50.160 and for some reason
00:29:51.040 they make it me
00:29:51.680 like not so likely
00:29:53.200 but if I was
00:29:53.800 I would like
00:29:54.400 order everybody
00:29:55.600 into the countryside
00:29:56.440 and then I would
00:29:57.280 make sure
00:29:57.680 that nobody's
00:29:58.220 in the buildings
00:29:58.660 because I love Korea
00:29:59.740 and I don't want
00:30:00.100 to hurt anybody
00:30:00.620 but I would
00:30:01.040 then demolish
00:30:01.560 all these skyscrapers
00:30:03.260 because I really
00:30:04.000 believe that
00:30:05.200 these buildings
00:30:06.100 these tall
00:30:06.880 dense skyscrapers
00:30:09.320 are a big cause
00:30:10.400 of the ultra low
00:30:11.680 fertility
00:30:12.080 in all of
00:30:12.880 this is true
00:30:13.660 in Shanghai
00:30:14.080 this is true
00:30:14.500 in Beijing
00:30:14.860 this is true
00:30:15.340 in all these
00:30:15.760 Asian cities
00:30:16.160 so I think
00:30:17.260 we have to be
00:30:17.940 incredibly careful
00:30:19.100 because if you
00:30:19.660 throw up a high rise
00:30:20.820 that could be
00:30:22.200 drawing people in
00:30:22.860 for 100 years
00:30:23.500 and that could be
00:30:23.980 killing fertility
00:30:24.560 in a country
00:30:25.060 for 100 years
00:30:26.300 I don't think
00:30:28.120 we have to worry
00:30:28.600 about that
00:30:29.000 okay okay
00:30:29.540 I don't think
00:30:30.060 any of these
00:30:30.540 high rises
00:30:31.000 are going to be
00:30:31.680 fully operational
00:30:32.600 in 100 years
00:30:33.300 okay anyway
00:30:35.180 I'll move on
00:30:36.500 to some other
00:30:37.060 factors here
00:30:37.840 let's see
00:30:38.820 here's something
00:30:39.780 that is
00:30:40.320 completely
00:30:41.060 different
00:30:42.460 let me see
00:30:43.560 we've just been
00:30:44.420 to so many cities
00:30:45.060 at this point
00:30:45.640 Malcolm and I
00:30:46.260 where
00:30:46.780 the buildings
00:30:48.560 are
00:30:49.260 30 years old
00:30:50.880 and crumbling
00:30:52.300 so
00:30:53.680 it's scary
00:30:55.020 it's a critical
00:30:55.800 mass thing
00:30:56.260 we're going to
00:30:56.580 have a level
00:30:57.180 of urban blight
00:30:58.100 and nature
00:30:59.100 recapture
00:30:59.820 that people
00:31:00.320 can't imagine
00:31:01.000 and I think
00:31:01.820 what we'll be
00:31:03.020 dealing with
00:31:03.440 in 100 years
00:31:04.040 is rats
00:31:04.540 eating people's
00:31:05.180 babies in
00:31:05.820 Manhattan
00:31:06.140 that's going
00:31:06.980 to be a
00:31:07.500 major issue
00:31:08.180 okay so this
00:31:09.500 is a completely
00:31:10.240 new fertility
00:31:11.060 factor
00:31:11.580 okay so we're
00:31:12.040 looking at a
00:31:12.480 graph
00:31:12.740 share of young
00:31:13.640 people
00:31:14.040 aged 25 to
00:31:15.520 34
00:31:15.960 living with
00:31:16.780 parents
00:31:17.160 oh no
00:31:18.220 okay this is
00:31:19.440 painful
00:31:19.900 but you look
00:31:20.920 at these numbers
00:31:21.440 and it's like
00:31:21.920 insane
00:31:22.380 oh my gosh
00:31:23.180 in Spain
00:31:24.040 it's 37.2
00:31:26.180 I want to be
00:31:27.240 clear this is
00:31:28.140 inversely
00:31:29.520 correlated with
00:31:30.760 their economic
00:31:31.600 success office
00:31:32.640 yeah
00:31:33.040 oh no
00:31:34.460 oh no I'm
00:31:35.180 wrong here
00:31:35.680 no it's
00:31:36.480 correlated with
00:31:37.200 their economic
00:31:37.700 success
00:31:38.360 the more
00:31:39.400 economically
00:31:39.840 successful
00:31:40.420 sorry I
00:31:40.920 thought the
00:31:41.200 colors were
00:31:41.720 reversed
00:31:42.160 okay what
00:31:43.160 we're looking
00:31:43.500 at is the
00:31:43.880 share of young
00:31:44.380 people living
00:31:44.800 with their
00:31:45.120 parents
00:31:45.580 yeah
00:31:46.140 so it's
00:31:46.780 much lower
00:31:47.580 in the
00:31:47.880 economically
00:31:48.300 successful
00:31:48.840 regions
00:31:49.320 and much
00:31:49.840 higher
00:31:50.240 in places
00:31:50.740 like
00:31:51.180 I'd really
00:31:52.220 be interested
00:31:52.640 to
00:31:52.800 no Malcolm
00:31:53.280 you've got
00:31:53.720 it wrong
00:31:54.060 it's lower
00:31:55.200 in regions
00:31:55.900 let me explain
00:31:57.500 this map
00:31:57.960 what we're
00:31:58.180 seeing a
00:31:58.480 little bit
00:31:58.760 so this
00:31:59.880 sheds a lot
00:32:00.600 of light
00:32:01.020 on why
00:32:01.380 the fertility
00:32:01.920 in the
00:32:02.880 Catholic
00:32:03.200 countries
00:32:03.700 is so
00:32:04.580 low
00:32:04.900 so we
00:32:05.860 can see
00:32:06.220 Poland
00:32:06.740 we can
00:32:07.400 Poland
00:32:07.880 in Poland
00:32:09.220 43%
00:32:10.800 of young
00:32:11.920 people
00:32:12.280 age 25
00:32:13.080 to 34
00:32:13.620 live with
00:32:15.280 their parents
00:32:15.800 in Italy
00:32:16.380 it's 47%
00:32:18.040 in Spain
00:32:18.840 it's 37%
00:32:20.540 as compared
00:32:21.500 with like
00:32:22.260 in Sweden
00:32:22.820 it's 4%
00:32:23.760 so we can
00:32:24.420 see this
00:32:25.720 incredibly
00:32:26.380 dramatic
00:32:26.820 difference
00:32:27.280 across Europe
00:32:28.080 of and we
00:32:29.180 know as you
00:32:30.280 guys know
00:32:30.720 the fertility
00:32:31.360 rate in Spain
00:32:32.180 and Italy
00:32:33.040 and also
00:32:33.800 Poland
00:32:34.160 are incredibly
00:32:35.200 low
00:32:35.580 even though
00:32:36.340 they're Catholic
00:32:36.860 countries
00:32:37.380 and I would
00:32:38.360 argue
00:32:39.060 that this
00:32:40.340 ironically
00:32:41.300 having a
00:32:42.460 close family
00:32:43.060 culture
00:32:43.540 can be
00:32:44.720 bad
00:32:45.160 in the
00:32:46.060 in the
00:32:46.580 sense
00:32:46.920 that
00:32:48.100 parents
00:32:49.320 coddle
00:32:50.000 their
00:32:50.300 adult
00:32:51.180 I want
00:32:52.100 to see
00:32:52.480 I don't
00:32:52.820 know
00:32:52.920 I find
00:32:53.420 very little
00:32:54.040 interesting
00:32:54.520 about this
00:32:55.040 to be
00:32:55.380 honest
00:32:55.720 because
00:32:56.440 this only
00:32:57.480 is useful
00:32:57.960 to me
00:32:58.240 if I'm
00:32:58.500 seeing it
00:32:58.820 in contrast
00:32:59.360 with the
00:32:59.720 high fertility
00:33:00.320 countries
00:33:00.840 of equivalent
00:33:02.400 economic
00:33:03.440 success
00:33:04.040 where this
00:33:04.960 just looks
00:33:05.680 like a
00:33:05.960 graph of
00:33:06.400 economic
00:33:06.800 success
00:33:07.180 of each
00:33:07.560 country
00:33:07.920 if I
00:33:08.660 could
00:33:08.820 contrast
00:33:09.340 Greece
00:33:09.820 or Italy
00:33:10.320 with Turkey
00:33:11.040 or something
00:33:12.040 like that
00:33:12.480 would be
00:33:12.780 interesting
00:33:13.160 I don't
00:33:14.160 I do want
00:33:14.640 to highlight
00:33:15.000 one thing
00:33:15.760 though
00:33:15.980 which is
00:33:16.480 that another
00:33:16.980 thing that
00:33:17.380 correlates
00:33:17.980 with a
00:33:18.900 better
00:33:19.180 relationship
00:33:19.800 with parents
00:33:20.520 or parent
00:33:21.280 relationship
00:33:21.820 satisfaction
00:33:22.500 is I
00:33:24.800 think higher
00:33:25.280 depression
00:33:25.980 so I
00:33:27.360 think a lot
00:33:27.660 of parents
00:33:28.040 think I
00:33:28.640 need to
00:33:29.000 give my
00:33:29.360 kids this
00:33:29.880 amazing
00:33:30.460 childhood
00:33:31.780 they need
00:33:32.340 to be my
00:33:32.740 best friend
00:33:33.440 I would
00:33:34.200 love for
00:33:34.540 them to
00:33:34.820 continue to
00:33:35.300 live with
00:33:35.600 me I'll
00:33:35.960 support their
00:33:36.460 lifestyle
00:33:37.020 but what
00:33:38.160 you're
00:33:38.420 creating
00:33:38.800 while they
00:33:39.260 will really
00:33:40.180 genuinely
00:33:40.800 like you
00:33:41.320 more
00:33:41.540 they're
00:33:42.400 also
00:33:42.800 sadder
00:33:43.840 they're
00:33:44.480 not getting
00:33:44.920 married
00:33:45.360 to your
00:33:45.920 point
00:33:46.260 and they
00:33:47.420 are not
00:33:47.980 economically
00:33:48.440 successful
00:33:48.680 I understand
00:33:49.260 your point
00:33:49.740 and it is
00:33:50.500 a valid
00:33:50.780 point
00:33:51.060 but there
00:33:51.340 is
00:33:51.540 and it'll
00:33:52.320 take me
00:33:52.680 a minute
00:33:52.980 to I
00:33:53.480 don't want
00:33:53.720 to throw
00:33:54.140 up this
00:33:54.560 chart
00:33:54.780 because I'm
00:33:55.080 going to
00:33:55.220 have to
00:33:55.480 look for
00:33:55.800 it but
00:33:55.980 you see
00:33:56.420 the same
00:33:57.340 relationship
00:33:57.900 in the
00:33:58.360 United
00:33:58.600 States
00:33:59.160 where
00:34:00.340 in the
00:34:01.160 states
00:34:01.480 where people
00:34:02.120 leave
00:34:02.980 the nest
00:34:03.880 earlier
00:34:04.740 they all
00:34:05.600 have a
00:34:05.980 higher
00:34:06.320 fertility
00:34:07.020 rate
00:34:07.320 so this
00:34:07.620 is
00:34:07.880 like
00:34:08.540 the fly
00:34:09.240 over
00:34:09.460 country
00:34:09.960 very
00:34:10.620 interesting
00:34:11.040 you can
00:34:11.340 send it to us
00:34:12.060 afterwards
00:34:12.440 and I'll
00:34:12.700 add it
00:34:12.920 and you can
00:34:13.420 find it
00:34:13.740 very easily
00:34:14.260 on my
00:34:14.580 Twitter
00:34:14.840 if you just
00:34:15.680 search for
00:34:16.680 I think
00:34:17.300 even better
00:34:18.020 drive people
00:34:18.640 to your
00:34:18.880 Twitter
00:34:19.100 yeah
00:34:19.420 yeah
00:34:19.720 if you search
00:34:20.680 launch
00:34:21.360 at more
00:34:22.240 births
00:34:22.560 you search
00:34:22.860 launch
00:34:23.180 because
00:34:23.400 I talk
00:34:24.300 about it
00:34:24.600 as failure
00:34:25.060 to launch
00:34:25.580 country
00:34:26.400 like in
00:34:26.820 the flyover
00:34:27.320 states
00:34:27.680 where
00:34:27.940 in the
00:34:28.460 states
00:34:28.700 where people
00:34:29.220 get out
00:34:29.900 of the
00:34:30.120 house
00:34:30.380 earlier
00:34:30.900 and are
00:34:32.160 on their
00:34:32.520 own
00:34:32.760 earlier
00:34:33.080 they have
00:34:33.400 a much
00:34:33.600 higher
00:34:33.800 fertility
00:34:34.240 it's been
00:34:36.440 great to
00:34:36.880 have you
00:34:37.160 on
00:34:37.420 I love
00:34:37.880 all these
00:34:38.200 thoughts
00:34:38.560 I love
00:34:38.940 all these
00:34:39.220 graphs
00:34:39.580 I know
00:34:39.880 our audience
00:34:40.320 will
00:34:40.700 you can
00:34:41.760 join our
00:34:42.440 discord server
00:34:43.220 too
00:34:43.500 which
00:34:43.680 apparently
00:34:44.060 some fans
00:34:45.120 started
00:34:45.460 and now
00:34:45.780 it's
00:34:45.920 actually
00:34:46.180 like
00:34:46.420 bopping
00:34:46.860 is
00:34:47.260 pernatalist
00:34:47.840 conversation
00:34:48.340 which is
00:34:48.680 cool
00:34:48.960 everyone
00:34:49.780 lists
00:34:50.200 themselves
00:34:50.580 with how
00:34:50.880 many kids
00:34:51.240 they have
00:34:51.580 next to
00:34:51.920 their names
00:34:52.440 this happened
00:34:53.520 organically
00:34:54.220 I didn't
00:34:54.580 ask for
00:34:54.980 this
00:34:55.280 so you'd
00:34:56.020 be high
00:34:56.580 stat
00:34:56.980 you got
00:34:57.280 six kids
00:34:58.320 yeah
00:34:58.860 you're living
00:34:59.460 the dream
00:35:00.040 yeah
00:35:00.680 I have
00:35:01.320 more factors
00:35:02.500 that we can
00:35:02.880 share
00:35:03.140 and we can
00:35:03.440 talk more
00:35:03.880 but I guess
00:35:04.420 we're reaching
00:35:04.780 the end
00:35:05.220 of our time
00:35:05.680 here
00:35:05.980 if you had
00:35:06.780 a few more
00:35:07.320 graphs
00:35:07.580 you wanted
00:35:07.840 to discuss
00:35:08.300 quickly
00:35:08.700 pull up
00:35:09.200 the ones
00:35:10.000 that you're
00:35:10.280 most interested
00:35:10.720 in
00:35:11.020 let's talk
00:35:12.740 about a couple
00:35:13.240 more facts
00:35:13.680 I have one
00:35:14.140 more
00:35:14.380 I have
00:35:15.060 another
00:35:15.460 spicy take
00:35:16.780 here
00:35:16.960 so you may
00:35:17.500 appreciate
00:35:17.980 this one
00:35:18.700 all right
00:35:19.720 let's take a
00:35:20.400 look at this
00:35:20.980 all right
00:35:21.260 so we're
00:35:21.560 looking at
00:35:22.320 the average
00:35:23.600 so this is a graph
00:35:23.820 by Ayla
00:35:24.940 oh
00:35:25.960 this looks
00:35:27.580 familiar
00:35:28.240 yes
00:35:29.700 this is her
00:35:31.180 own
00:35:31.520 data
00:35:32.700 and it's
00:35:33.120 great that
00:35:33.480 she's honest
00:35:34.080 about it
00:35:34.520 but this is
00:35:35.040 and there's
00:35:35.800 other data
00:35:36.280 that backs
00:35:36.780 up this
00:35:37.620 same
00:35:37.980 trend
00:35:39.140 where
00:35:39.540 actually
00:35:40.360 the more
00:35:40.800 partners
00:35:41.400 somebody
00:35:42.480 has
00:35:43.160 the lower
00:35:44.480 their fertility
00:35:45.580 is
00:35:46.040 and actually
00:35:47.200 and I can
00:35:47.800 also just
00:35:50.060 being poly
00:35:50.800 regardless of
00:35:52.000 your partner
00:35:52.620 count
00:35:53.060 seems to
00:35:54.240 make
00:35:55.020 yeah
00:35:55.820 but I also
00:35:56.560 see something
00:35:57.380 here that you
00:35:57.860 might not be
00:35:58.280 noticing is the
00:35:59.140 jump in number
00:35:59.940 of kids in
00:36:00.620 poly relationships
00:36:01.380 between 45
00:36:03.420 and 45
00:36:05.460 and 50
00:36:06.140 which implies
00:36:07.320 that they're
00:36:07.920 counting kids
00:36:08.680 that are brought
00:36:09.180 in from
00:36:09.720 alternate
00:36:10.220 partners and
00:36:11.280 relationships
00:36:11.960 they're
00:36:12.980 considering
00:36:13.500 their kids
00:36:14.220 I know
00:36:14.580 she said
00:36:14.900 is your
00:36:15.400 partner
00:36:15.720 but I bet
00:36:16.220 that's what's
00:36:16.580 causing that
00:36:16.980 so you think
00:36:17.500 that poly
00:36:18.000 is even
00:36:18.320 artificially
00:36:18.920 inflated
00:36:19.400 in this
00:36:19.800 graph
00:36:20.180 yeah
00:36:20.640 because
00:36:21.040 almost
00:36:21.720 no woman
00:36:22.240 is having
00:36:22.580 kids
00:36:22.860 over 45
00:36:23.680 oh that's
00:36:25.060 fair
00:36:25.380 and this
00:36:26.140 is showing
00:36:26.560 a big
00:36:27.160 jump
00:36:27.540 in the
00:36:27.860 number
00:36:28.040 of kids
00:36:28.380 per poly
00:36:28.860 relationship
00:36:29.420 after the
00:36:29.960 age of
00:36:30.220 40
00:36:30.380 yeah
00:36:30.580 and I
00:36:30.820 want to
00:36:31.260 I'll
00:36:32.000 stop
00:36:32.220 sharing
00:36:32.440 this
00:36:32.600 and share
00:36:33.080 one more
00:36:33.420 chart
00:36:33.700 here
00:36:33.940 that's
00:36:34.500 related
00:36:34.820 to this
00:36:35.340 so
00:36:36.200 here we
00:36:36.860 go
00:36:37.200 and I
00:36:39.340 think
00:36:39.500 a high
00:36:40.260 correlatory
00:36:40.760 factor
00:36:41.120 here
00:36:41.380 we're
00:36:41.840 talking
00:36:42.240 about
00:36:42.620 the
00:36:43.000 depressing
00:36:43.560 effect
00:36:44.680 of
00:36:44.960 multiple
00:36:45.340 partners
00:36:45.820 or more
00:36:46.520 partners
00:36:46.980 on fertility
00:36:47.740 is what
00:36:48.680 are you
00:36:48.860 living for
00:36:49.340 in life
00:36:49.760 are you
00:36:50.120 living for
00:36:51.060 a broader
00:36:51.720 purpose
00:36:52.120 or your
00:36:52.460 value set
00:36:53.040 or are you
00:36:53.500 living for
00:36:53.960 fun and
00:36:54.340 pleasure
00:36:54.660 and if
00:36:55.380 you're
00:36:55.500 living for
00:36:55.940 fun and
00:36:56.220 pleasure
00:36:56.460 I could
00:36:56.780 see
00:36:56.940 partner
00:36:57.220 count
00:36:57.440 being
00:36:57.620 higher
00:36:57.940 and kids
00:36:58.440 being
00:36:58.640 lower
00:36:58.940 because
00:36:59.280 that's
00:36:59.620 just
00:36:59.780 how it
00:37:00.160 works
00:37:00.540 yeah
00:37:00.840 that's
00:37:01.320 right
00:37:01.500 but this
00:37:01.840 is a
00:37:02.140 trend
00:37:02.580 that is
00:37:03.400 not
00:37:03.680 new
00:37:04.140 it's
00:37:04.920 actually
00:37:05.180 this is
00:37:05.460 a chart
00:37:05.780 you can
00:37:06.120 look at
00:37:06.840 the number
00:37:07.180 of children
00:37:07.840 this is
00:37:10.060 for men
00:37:10.560 this is
00:37:11.520 the number
00:37:11.880 of children
00:37:12.380 by the
00:37:12.820 number
00:37:13.040 by partner
00:37:13.820 count
00:37:14.160 since age
00:37:14.740 18
00:37:15.280 and the
00:37:16.660 people
00:37:17.520 who think
00:37:18.500 that it's
00:37:19.080 the players
00:37:20.120 it's the
00:37:21.160 like the
00:37:21.680 mac daddies
00:37:22.260 who have
00:37:22.800 tons of
00:37:23.540 partners
00:37:23.960 have the
00:37:24.540 highest
00:37:24.760 fertility
00:37:25.080 that's
00:37:25.420 not true
00:37:25.920 it's
00:37:26.520 actually
00:37:26.880 the highest
00:37:28.040 fertility
00:37:28.460 are the
00:37:29.000 people that
00:37:29.440 had very
00:37:29.800 few
00:37:30.040 partners
00:37:30.460 and the
00:37:31.680 I think
00:37:32.760 a big
00:37:33.200 correlation
00:37:33.720 for this
00:37:34.740 is early
00:37:35.380 marriage
00:37:35.800 so the
00:37:37.780 earlier
00:37:38.300 one of the
00:37:39.800 most important
00:37:40.380 factors for
00:37:40.940 high fertility
00:37:41.580 is early
00:37:42.600 marriage
00:37:42.920 and if you
00:37:43.260 want to
00:37:43.580 understand
00:37:44.160 the baby
00:37:45.180 boom
00:37:45.560 which 1946
00:37:47.000 to 1964
00:37:48.000 baby boom
00:37:48.820 like the
00:37:49.260 OG baby
00:37:49.820 boom
00:37:50.160 what caused
00:37:51.120 that
00:37:51.460 a big
00:37:52.260 part of
00:37:52.680 that
00:37:52.900 was that
00:37:53.420 people were
00:37:53.900 just getting
00:37:54.400 married
00:37:54.840 young
00:37:56.140 and in
00:37:57.680 high numbers
00:37:58.360 and so
00:37:59.580 that so
00:38:00.380 getting married
00:38:01.080 young would
00:38:01.560 be correlated
00:38:02.540 of course
00:38:03.000 with a lower
00:38:03.460 partner count
00:38:04.120 so that
00:38:04.940 may be a
00:38:05.340 big part
00:38:05.700 of what
00:38:05.900 we're
00:38:06.060 seeing
00:38:06.340 but this
00:38:06.760 people who
00:38:07.580 think
00:38:07.880 that they
00:38:08.860 have to
00:38:09.380 be a
00:38:10.180 player
00:38:10.420 with tons
00:38:10.860 of partners
00:38:11.380 in order
00:38:11.920 to have
00:38:12.740 a lot
00:38:12.960 of kids
00:38:13.300 have it
00:38:13.700 if you're
00:38:14.620 sleeping
00:38:14.900 as lots
00:38:15.220 of people
00:38:15.520 and you're
00:38:15.840 not having
00:38:16.200 kids with
00:38:16.560 them that's
00:38:16.880 just masturbation
00:38:17.720 with another
00:38:18.120 person's body
00:38:18.840 I had Simone
00:38:19.500 tweet recently
00:38:20.860 non-reproductive
00:38:22.300 sex is a
00:38:22.960 fetish
00:38:23.400 yeah
00:38:23.800 it is
00:38:25.100 it is a
00:38:25.640 fetish
00:38:25.920 because it's
00:38:26.420 something that
00:38:26.880 you find
00:38:27.220 arousing that
00:38:27.760 has nothing
00:38:28.100 to do with
00:38:28.480 reproduction
00:38:28.920 and so
00:38:29.720 that's
00:38:30.080 because people
00:38:30.860 always accuse
00:38:31.400 us
00:38:31.620 they're like
00:38:31.860 oh you have
00:38:32.200 a breeding
00:38:32.580 fetish
00:38:33.020 and this
00:38:33.260 one it's
00:38:33.900 disgusting
00:38:34.500 that your
00:38:34.920 world perspective
00:38:35.580 is the only
00:38:36.480 thing that can
00:38:36.920 motivate someone
00:38:37.660 is what
00:38:38.040 arouses them
00:38:38.760 which is
00:38:39.700 a lot of
00:38:40.400 ultra leftist
00:38:41.080 world views
00:38:41.660 like their
00:38:42.080 entire identity
00:38:42.880 is based
00:38:43.280 around what
00:38:43.640 arouses them
00:38:44.340 and so they
00:38:45.120 assume that
00:38:45.660 everyone else's
00:38:46.300 must be
00:38:46.600 because they're
00:38:47.060 sociopaths
00:38:47.780 and that's
00:38:48.040 the way
00:38:48.240 sociopaths
00:38:48.840 see the
00:38:49.080 world
00:38:49.400 or at least
00:38:50.140 narcissists
00:38:50.780 do
00:38:51.020 but also
00:38:52.600 what you're
00:38:52.960 seeing here
00:38:53.480 oh but
00:38:54.220 three also
00:38:55.260 all of our
00:38:55.780 children were
00:38:56.440 created through
00:38:57.000 IVF so
00:38:57.780 the breeding
00:38:58.480 fetish
00:38:58.880 kind of goes
00:38:59.500 out the
00:38:59.780 window
00:38:59.980 yeah and
00:39:01.060 that's
00:39:01.920 something that
00:39:02.320 I wish
00:39:02.900 conservatives
00:39:03.840 would let
00:39:04.720 go of
00:39:05.000 this hang
00:39:05.640 up about
00:39:06.100 they mostly
00:39:06.720 are it's
00:39:07.460 interesting the
00:39:07.960 conservatives that
00:39:08.560 have a hang
00:39:08.920 up about
00:39:09.300 this like
00:39:09.820 they're not
00:39:10.140 having kids
00:39:10.880 who did we
00:39:11.480 meet at the
00:39:12.000 prenatalist
00:39:12.580 conference like
00:39:13.140 pat buchanan
00:39:13.960 who had a
00:39:14.320 big hang
00:39:14.640 up of this
00:39:15.180 and all of
00:39:16.060 his kids
00:39:16.580 have been
00:39:17.020 victim of
00:39:17.560 the catholic
00:39:18.040 priesthood
00:39:18.600 and
00:39:18.900 pat buchanan
00:39:20.140 was not there
00:39:20.700 at the
00:39:20.900 natal
00:39:21.080 conference
00:39:21.340 who am i
00:39:21.860 thinking of
00:39:22.280 we were
00:39:22.860 talking about
00:39:23.420 pat fagan
00:39:24.300 no
00:39:24.700 pat fagan i
00:39:25.680 don't know
00:39:25.880 i feel like
00:39:26.440 it was a
00:39:26.760 catholic guy
00:39:28.240 yeah but
00:39:29.020 we got in a
00:39:31.060 it was like a
00:39:31.560 hardcore old
00:39:32.520 catholic guy
00:39:33.360 and he had
00:39:34.100 three kids
00:39:34.780 and every single
00:39:35.320 one of them
00:39:35.640 had joined in
00:39:36.080 the priesthood
00:39:36.740 and he has
00:39:37.500 no
00:39:37.740 pat fagan
00:39:38.540 because he's
00:39:38.960 got eight
00:39:39.360 kids he
00:39:39.720 was i
00:39:40.180 remember because
00:39:40.800 every they went
00:39:41.480 around the room
00:39:41.900 asking who has
00:39:42.480 the most kids
00:39:42.940 and he won
00:39:43.400 he like oh
00:39:44.600 it might have
00:39:45.380 been i guess i
00:39:46.460 assumed was all
00:39:47.420 of the kids that
00:39:47.940 he was mentioning
00:39:48.380 who joined the
00:39:48.920 priesthood that
00:39:49.520 maybe he had
00:39:50.040 so he might
00:39:50.860 still have some
00:39:51.400 that are having
00:39:51.840 kids okay so
00:39:52.660 he just tithes
00:39:53.320 10 it's fine
00:39:54.520 not but it's
00:39:57.760 these cultural
00:39:58.380 groups as i've
00:39:59.280 mentioned the
00:39:59.860 cultural groups
00:40:00.560 that are being
00:40:01.520 most hit of the
00:40:02.660 religious communities
00:40:03.560 by fertility
00:40:04.160 collapse are
00:40:05.480 catholic christians
00:40:06.800 and orthodox
00:40:07.600 christians are
00:40:08.620 the two highest
00:40:09.440 hit of all
00:40:10.220 western cultural
00:40:11.120 groups jews
00:40:12.400 aren't hit that
00:40:12.900 bad protestants
00:40:13.840 are hit a little
00:40:14.340 but not that
00:40:15.100 bad muslims
00:40:16.500 are hit actually
00:40:17.240 worse than
00:40:18.000 protestants or
00:40:18.680 jews but still
00:40:20.020 do a little better
00:40:20.680 than catholic and
00:40:21.380 orthodox communities
00:40:22.340 but the communities
00:40:23.520 that motivated
00:40:24.340 high fertility
00:40:25.080 through these
00:40:25.860 strict restrictions
00:40:27.300 around like
00:40:29.100 when life
00:40:29.600 begins
00:40:30.160 condoms
00:40:31.340 etc
00:40:31.840 don't appear
00:40:33.220 to be able
00:40:33.620 to motivate
00:40:34.020 fertility anymore
00:40:34.940 in a modern
00:40:35.400 ecosystem
00:40:35.960 yeah it depends
00:40:37.120 with catholic
00:40:37.780 fertility
00:40:38.200 it's hard to
00:40:39.920 tell and it's
00:40:40.440 hard to tell
00:40:40.800 where things
00:40:41.220 are going
00:40:41.580 because you
00:40:42.020 have a big
00:40:42.480 contrast
00:40:43.020 also between
00:40:44.460 catholics
00:40:45.140 in europe
00:40:46.260 and catholics
00:40:47.020 in america
00:40:47.800 and i don't
00:40:48.460 know if
00:40:48.760 maybe catholics
00:40:49.700 in america
00:40:50.340 i need to be
00:40:52.060 clear classics
00:40:52.680 in europe
00:40:53.300 and in latin
00:40:54.180 america
00:40:54.520 which are
00:40:54.920 both collapsing
00:40:55.700 that is true
00:40:57.240 that is true
00:40:57.920 now somehow
00:40:58.660 in in the united
00:41:00.360 states it seems
00:41:01.080 catholics have a
00:41:01.960 higher fertility
00:41:02.660 and i don't know
00:41:04.040 if it may have
00:41:04.680 to do with the
00:41:05.120 fact that they're
00:41:05.640 a minority
00:41:06.320 in america
00:41:07.960 that could be it
00:41:09.220 yeah
00:41:09.500 so being a
00:41:10.180 minority
00:41:10.720 we think that's
00:41:12.040 a big factor
00:41:12.720 yeah yeah
00:41:13.520 we think that's
00:41:14.060 a big factor
00:41:14.680 which means
00:41:15.160 the sense of
00:41:16.060 being a renegade
00:41:16.820 like you're not
00:41:17.260 gonna feel like
00:41:18.100 a renegade
00:41:18.660 if you're a
00:41:19.040 catholic in
00:41:19.520 italy
00:41:19.880 i'm feeling
00:41:20.440 like there's
00:41:21.080 something to
00:41:21.540 fight for
00:41:21.920 because you
00:41:22.540 are the other
00:41:23.260 surrounded by
00:41:24.100 very different
00:41:24.860 group
00:41:25.180 yeah
00:41:25.460 in hostile
00:41:25.960 land
00:41:26.440 which is
00:41:27.220 interesting
00:41:27.600 because a lot
00:41:28.140 of conservatives
00:41:28.620 fight for the
00:41:29.480 opposite of that
00:41:30.060 they're like we
00:41:30.560 need like one
00:41:31.180 country one
00:41:31.740 people and it's
00:41:32.340 that's the exact
00:41:33.460 opposite of what's
00:41:34.340 going to succeed
00:41:34.820 yeah it does not
00:41:35.380 correlate with
00:41:35.920 success fertility
00:41:36.700 wise
00:41:37.220 yeah a lot of
00:41:39.000 things are changing
00:41:39.740 a lot of as you
00:41:41.080 have said
00:41:41.560 culture cultures
00:41:42.600 that that have
00:41:43.220 been in this
00:41:43.720 situation for a
00:41:44.620 while can learn
00:41:45.480 to to fortify
00:41:47.080 themselves like
00:41:47.720 one example
00:41:49.820 that's been
00:41:50.520 exploding of a
00:41:51.980 high fertility
00:41:52.540 subculture is
00:41:53.640 homeschool families
00:41:54.480 this is hardly
00:41:55.280 talked about but
00:41:55.920 actually and
00:41:57.060 homeschool families
00:41:58.380 are a renegade
00:41:59.180 culture that
00:41:59.860 wait have you
00:42:00.580 do you have
00:42:00.980 statistics on
00:42:01.620 homeschooling
00:42:02.080 fertility rates
00:42:02.700 let me see if i
00:42:03.720 can pull that up
00:42:04.420 when you finally
00:42:05.860 remove people from
00:42:07.380 sterilizing educational
00:42:09.300 platforms and of
00:42:10.080 course you've talked
00:42:10.680 about that when we in
00:42:11.600 our previous
00:42:11.960 conversation where at
00:42:13.640 public schools people
00:42:14.420 are literally being
00:42:15.380 taught to see
00:42:17.700 population growth and
00:42:18.740 reproductive
00:42:19.220 reproduction as a
00:42:20.980 bad thing that hurts
00:42:21.740 the environment is it
00:42:23.280 any wonder that
00:42:24.180 going to homeschool
00:42:24.940 suddenly helps you
00:42:26.700 out all right here
00:42:27.760 i'm gonna share
00:42:28.560 something relate some
00:42:29.680 data related to
00:42:30.460 homeschooling right
00:42:31.240 now nice all right
00:42:33.320 because i do have
00:42:34.220 that and you this is
00:42:34.960 one thing that's
00:42:35.460 really wonderful about
00:42:36.220 my feed is that you
00:42:37.600 can search at more
00:42:38.500 births for whatever
00:42:39.800 topic and there's a
00:42:41.020 good chance that i will
00:42:41.800 have written about it
00:42:42.700 now you are the kind
00:42:43.660 of the reference point
00:42:44.560 encyclopedia if you
00:42:46.020 need i really want to
00:42:47.440 40 oh this is
00:42:48.780 fascinating yeah 48% of
00:42:50.640 homeschooling
00:42:51.140 homeschools have
00:42:51.860 three or more
00:42:53.540 children
00:42:54.100 yeah this is a very
00:42:57.860 important thing you we
00:42:58.940 it turns out like you
00:43:00.540 need to have a norm
00:43:01.580 of three children as
00:43:04.040 like the baseline in
00:43:05.620 order to just have
00:43:06.420 replacement fertility
00:43:07.320 because in our world
00:43:08.140 today now
00:43:08.900 approximately one
00:43:10.360 third of young
00:43:12.260 people will have zero
00:43:13.200 children
00:43:13.620 it's also compelling
00:43:15.560 stat because
00:43:16.280 homeschooling is not
00:43:17.660 easier when you have
00:43:19.100 more kids per se so
00:43:21.180 presumably it's harder
00:43:22.460 so yeah you have more
00:43:23.380 kids to educate you
00:43:24.260 would think that home
00:43:25.040 that parents of more
00:43:26.200 children would be more
00:43:27.120 motivated to send them
00:43:28.320 out send them to public
00:43:29.360 school not have to pay
00:43:30.300 for them use food
00:43:31.140 services these are
00:43:31.820 great stats
00:43:32.660 definitely be repeating
00:43:34.640 and it has been so good
00:43:36.080 to have you on and
00:43:36.720 people should definitely
00:43:37.300 check out your profile
00:43:38.160 yeah on twitter it's
00:43:39.440 like the encyclopedia of
00:43:40.920 demographic collapse
00:43:41.860 graphs stats
00:43:42.900 arguments really great
00:43:44.100 threads so definitely
00:43:45.380 yeah but and i also want
00:43:46.700 to point out that it's
00:43:47.820 not merely collapse
00:43:48.940 porn it's not there's a
00:43:50.640 lot of there's a lot of
00:43:51.840 levers and there's a lot
00:43:52.740 of ways to increase
00:43:53.760 fertility and every little
00:43:54.820 bit helps
00:43:55.400 yeah because getting
00:43:57.060 from like 1.3 to 1.5
00:44:01.000 or 1.6 makes such a
00:44:02.480 dramatic difference for
00:44:03.300 the future because it
00:44:04.180 all compounds
00:44:04.960 totally agree
00:44:06.140 yeah it's been great to
00:44:07.600 have you on
00:44:08.160 yeah thanks again for
00:44:09.100 coming on this was
00:44:09.860 really fun
00:44:10.460 and thanks for your
00:44:11.320 time have a spectacular
00:44:12.860 day
00:44:13.460 yeah thank you so much
00:44:14.840 you guys also thank
00:44:16.740 you thank you it's been
00:44:17.620 wonderful ciao a citizen
00:44:20.520 has the courage to make
00:44:22.540 the safety of the human
00:44:23.480 race their personal
00:44:24.360 responsibility