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#482 - Tyler Cowen - The Secret To Finding Great Talent

Modern Wisdom

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Population Collapse - What Do You Think?

population collapse is unique in that it lacks a noticeable, immediate pain for us to rally against. We have at least two countries, france and england, where fertility has returned to replacement levels. I think also, we will have new technologies that lower the cost of raising children. And just theoretically, there are gains from trade from having more kids. But i am convinced that overtime, especially if nation states truly start to shrink, become vulnerable to foreign exploitation and capture, that we will find ways to get population numbers back up again. Eventually they'll be wrong again. Maybe not in singapore, but for the world as a whole.

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