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#640 - Malcolm Collins - Why Do So Many People Not Want To Have Children?

Modern Wisdom

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The Relationship Between Prosperity and Fertility

Prosperity induced fertility collapse. Typically when a country earns over 5,000 USD a year, fertility begins to fall below replacement rate. If you're making an average of half a million dollars a year or more as a family, you will be at above replacement fertility. And in many ways, families at that income level are just not like the economy isn't grabbing them as much because they don't need the economy as much.

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