Is There a Danger That the World Will Be a Depopulated Place?

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Is there a danger that the whole world, or most of the world, becomes like japan, where the population just keeps on shrinking and the world becomes a depopulated place? I mean, i think that's a serious possibility, you know. And we can sort of, people can disagree as to exactly how dyre is that. A world in which most people have two or three children instead of one or two children, is like a perfectly plausible senario....

Matt Yglesias joined Tyler for a wide-ranging conversation on his vision for a bigger, less politically polarized America outlined in his new book One Billion Americans: The Case for Thinking Bigger.

They discussed why it’s easier to grow Tokyo than New York City, the governance issues of increasing urban populations, what Tyler got right about pro-immigration arguments, how to respond to declining fertility rates, why he’d be happy to see more people going to church (even though he’s not religious), why liberals and conservatives should take marriage incentive programs more seriously, what larger families would mean for feminism, why people should read Robert Nozick, whether the YIMBY movement will be weakened by COVID-19, how New York City will bounce back, why he’s long on Minneapolis, how to address constitutional ruptures, how to attract more competent people to state and local governments, what he’s learned growing up in a family full of economists, his mother’s wisdom about visual design and more.

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