The U.S. birth rate plunged to an all-time low in 2024. After, on a downward trajectory of roughly 20 years, with soaring housing costs cited as a major contributing factor, earlier this summer, the CDC released an updated birth rate for this year, revealing that the nation s national fertility rate to less than 1.6 kids per women.
00:00:00.000The U.S. birth rate plunge to an all-time low in 2024 after, on a downward trajectory of roughly 20 years with soaring housing costs,
00:00:07.920cited as a major contributing factor earlier this summer, U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention released an updated birth rate for this year,
00:00:15.920revealing that the nation's national fertility rate to less than 1.6.
00:00:20.160I think the exact number is 1.59, to be exact.
00:00:22.900Kids per women, down from 2.1 just 19 years ago.
00:00:28.340Which, that's the replacement rate, by the way.
00:00:31.860The country needs to sustain its population.
00:00:34.200The last two decades saw women increasingly delaying having children or choosing to not have them at all.
00:00:39.460There are many factors fueling this trend, including personnel and culture, and one of them is rising housing costs.
00:00:45.000Data analyzed by Realtor.com economists show that 2006 to 2024, the financial burden of purchasing a home has grown dramatically.
00:00:52.660In 2006, the median price of a single-family home was $222,000.
00:00:56.140Which is now $343,000 in 2024 when adjusted for inflation.
00:01:05.100But by comparison, the median sale in 2024 was $410,000.
00:01:09.600Which is $66,000 more than what it was in 2006.
00:01:12.600Overtime, the 18-year period, the U.S. total fertility rate dropped from 2.1 to 1.6.
00:01:16.780Well, to me, these are two totally separate stories that they tried to, like, hodgepodge together to give some reasons as to why birth rates are plummeting.
00:01:25.880Yeah, does the housing market have something to do with it a little bit?
00:03:48.320And I'm going to add to it that liberalism and progressive policy, to add on to what Adam's talking about, the only progress that progressive liberalism has done is made progress breaking the family.
00:04:03.020Made progress trying to teach the tenets of family break in the schools, being able to push liberalism.
00:04:11.780That's where they're making progress, is in infiltrating the minds of young men and young boys and girls that grow up to have exactly the dynamic that Adam's talking about.
00:04:22.260A guy that is looking to get married and looking around for who and then finding out what the mindset of a lot of women, not all of them, out there is all about.
00:04:49.300Maybe an expensive house is part of it.
00:04:53.060But at the end of it, you've got progressive policy has destroyed marriage and has infiltrated the minds of kids, which is why conservative people want this stuff not taught in schools, so that kids can grow up.
00:05:05.920And when you take a look at replacement rate, take a look at what happens downstream.
00:05:09.640You destroy the family, your taxes long-term go up, and you destroy the fabric of that country.
00:05:59.320And they're basically just sort of encompassing feminist ideology.
00:06:03.240And he goes, listen, are you feminists or F boys?
00:06:07.200Because, you know, F boys, because this is how men think.
00:06:09.840Work, make money, hot chicks, blah, blah.
00:06:12.020This is how women think at this point.
00:06:13.900And he sort of exposes their progressive mindset is that they're basically trying to be the people they hate, which is F boys.
00:06:21.960And Andrew Schultz encompasses it greatly.
00:06:24.080But modern feminism is not helping women.
00:06:26.740The good news is we are starting to see women and content creators say, I'm just a lovely housewife, and I'm here to help my husband and have kids.
00:08:49.640If your temptation with your right hand, cut it off.
00:08:52.060And if you're knowingly doing it, because once you go all in, once you go all in, you can't be the fence guy.
00:08:57.500And I know, because you mentioned that when you were talking about how, well, if I'm doing all this stuff, and just at the end, I say, hey, I'm sorry, I'm going to go to heaven.
00:09:04.180That's not, if you don't truly mean it, Adam, and you don't take the steps to try to become a good Christian, you know how hard, just the stuff that's going on in here.
00:09:12.760I'm at church, and there's a beautiful girl.
00:09:38.760So the double standard in the homocracy is like, the words that come out of your mouth are different than the actions that you actually do.
00:09:45.440And alignment, I think, is out of the way.
00:09:47.320I'm going to make a really good point, but I would ask you a question.
00:09:49.000If you ran into somebody that was in your lane of life insurance, and they were corrupt, and they were really bad, and you were really disgusted by that, would that keep you from your career doing as well as you've done in your lane of life insurance?
00:11:27.400You're living true to yourself in the values and principles.
00:11:29.740So if you say you're a Christian, you're going by the values and principles, try to live.
00:11:34.540P.B.D., I actually want to ask you this question on alignment, because we've had multiple discussions on air, off air, you know, this whole thing, cut it off.
00:11:40.720What would be your advice for people to live with alignment?
00:12:12.120It was great hanging with you last night, buddy.
00:12:15.140No, I don't get DMs from guys telling me last night was great.
00:12:18.080But the point I'm trying to tell you is, look, there comes a time in your life where, you know, you can be 45, and some may think you're a man, but you're just an old boy.
00:16:41.560I mean, if you're watching, I think one of the most important principles of success in business that's certainly shaped my life is proximity is power.
00:16:48.980The first multi-billionaire I met, he's saying, tell me your goals.
00:16:59.800He goes, brother, what made me a billionaire's proximity is power.
00:17:03.360If you get in the environment with people that are the best in the world, you're one or two people away from the deal that you want to make.
00:17:09.320But if you're trying to do something you don't know anybody, you can forget it.
00:17:11.980And what I love about this is you're democratizing it.
00:17:14.520You make it so we get access to people.
00:17:16.340If you're on LinkedIn, it's really nice, but most people are not going to respond.
00:17:19.260Maybe 10% of the people respond if they're a player.