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Why are birth rates plummeting? And how much does it matter? (with Malcolm & Simone Collins)

Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg

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The Value of Kids

Donik: If everyone who is susceptible to what we think of as modernity stops having kids, then the people who are susceptible to those ideas at a sociological level will suffer. He says that if you systemically delete all of the humans who are open to ideas like environmentalism from the population, you will see lower rates within future populations. "We believe and want to fight for...a diverse, hopefully one day intergalactic human civilization," Donik says.

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