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GoodFellows: Conversations from the Hoover Institution

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Are You Finding It Harder and Harder to Keep Recruiting Young Men Into the Military?

Nick Bostrom: I have a question that links your world, Nick's and HR's because one of the things you've been writing about very compellingly in your recent work on the US is the pretty unhealthy state of the young American male. And this shows up in a variety of different ways. It shows up in labor market participation; it shows up in in health metrics. But let's get off the catastrophe of immigration and if I could just make it as an American historian is that you know that was that was the contrast between Massachusetts Bay Colony and Virginia,. Your Virginia was populated really with with all, you know young men, and it was families really Massachusetts Bay Colony.

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