The global baby bust | The Gray Area

Because everything is too expensive. Because the environment is destroyed. Because schools teach useless topics instead of how to make clothes and houses for ourselves. Because the 1% do awful things to kids.

Our most vulnerable will rely on the future workforce. With no kids today we will have no social protection systems in the future

So it's not really technology then…but via more accessible knowledge which has allowed women to realise at an accelerated rate that they don't and shouldn't want to settle for mediocrity and actually have standards. So if this is such an issue…this can be solved by men picking UP their slack and becoming better (in their ambition, in sharing the household chores, in becoming more introspective and becoming better friends and lovers…)

This video could have been done in 1/4 of the time. ITS THE WEALTH HOARDING. The majority of us can barely take care of OURSELVES

"women should do X"

Listen, I'd be happy to be a single father, but I still need a woman for that. I can make 2.1 kids by myself.

He completely side-stepped the climate and environmental question.

This is good news. Esp for the planet and fellow earthlings. Let the AI and robots produce, consume their own product and pay taxes. Let's keep it falling people! There's no fun and joy in having and raising annoying, burden, noisy and messy kids!

Systemic Problem and Mathematics Problem.. Hans Rosling – 11 Billion People, by 2100 the planet will plateau at in population and growth at 11 billion. THIS IS MATHS.
The systemic problem is there is low or zero future prospects to entice childbirth. For the first time in modern history the current upcoming generations will be worse off than Their parents. System is broken, and mathematics is by default showing the growth percentage is getting lower and lower. in 1990 the growth rate percentage was 2.42%, 2020 that rate is 1.81%, that is on average a fall of 1% to 1.5% annually. current statistical numbers show that by 2076 to 2094 the plateau will hit and shortly after there will be the first human population growth percentage of a negative number.

Phones (really, the internet in general) gave females access and exposure to an overall quality of men that they did not previously have access to.
Naturally, they all hold out for the best man they can find, even if it means holding out far beyond their most fertile years. .
Unbeknownst to their solipsistic little selves, they can't ALL have the top 10% of men even though they have potential access and exposure to them.
SO, they hold out, for what amounts to no reason, because "I'm special, I deserve the best" and wind up not reproducing.
You can sum it up by saying the internet broke our women and no one would argue with you. It's feminism too though. Pedestalization of women and simultaneous trivialization of men is just not a good look for relationship formation.

We are demanding too much of this earth. Humans are overpopulated.

"Welcome my son… Welcome to the machine "

We need to give the environment a rest. To me, the upsides of population stagnating or slightly decreasing outweigh the negatives.

Idk. I see people in poverty having plenty of kids. Basically kids having kids. Grandma by 36. Great Grandmas by 54..

I'm sure Vox wouldn't suggest that white people are being reeeeeplaced

Sigh. The fertility rate for the entire CONTINENT of Africa is 4.0 right now. So, no, there's not a 'global baby bust'. We're not running out of humans any time soon. We were having a globe crushing, environment destroying, catastrophic rate of human population expansion, and we still are!!!! it's just slowing compared to like, the 1950s. And if Western developed countries are so worried about not enough young people…..just allow more immigration.

Throwing everyone into the work force was a mistake.. also people are incredibly selfish and self absorbed and don't want to "waste" their best years raising children and end all the "fun" they are having. The new generations on the whole just don't value the idea of creating life the way their parents and grandparents did. I don't see this trend reversing.

Because life in our societies is not worth the trouble we go through to participate in it.
Here we are at the pinnacle of civilization, genocide has been normalized, we've destroyed the planet.
Our history is horrific and ridiculous.
Everything science does goes straight to the Pentagon, anything that can be weaponized will be weaponized.
Suppose the Scientific communities had focused their efforts on creating peace love and understanding instead of nuclear weapons, etc.
Unconscionable things happen all day every day.
We don't live in a normal world, we live in a peculiar one.

Funny was just looking up a video about the declining birth rate issue and Vox uploads a video only 3 hours ago.

I don't like Boris Johnson but he's right. Most of this is women not wanting to be stuck with sorry men. The end.

Birth rates going down isn’t a bug of contemporary societies. It’s a feature. They will continue to fall. Not because the planet needs protecting. Not so much because faith, or money, is lacking. A major factor is status, especially for women: because when someone is asked “what do you do for a living?”, the answer “I raise my children” ranks barely higher than “I collect baseball cards”. But above all, because more and more people want, or need, more time for themselves.

What is time made of, in modern times? It's made up of 4 elements, even though there’s only room for three. Trying to fit all four leads to overload, resentment, and often, collapse.

The 4 elements are: 1) Sleep — 2) Work — 3) Family (children) — 4) ‘Leisure’ (addiction to screens, to books, to collecting, to fiction, to love, to friendship, to solitude; playing a musical instrument, immersing oneself in dead languages, indulging in unprofitable conversations, building the self, tending one’s garden, living with one’s ghosts, etc.)

Can you do without sleep? Obviously not. Cutting back damages your health — seriously. Can you do without work? Yes, if you were born with a silver spoon in your mouth. In other words: no. That leaves just two adjustable variables. Family, leisure.

If you’re being reasonable, you follow the orders of the guard dogs of adulthood: once you reach ‘maturity’, you’re supposed to slash your leisure time — especially screens — and act like a serious adult. But here’s the snag: this so-called adult life is often the fastest way to miss out on life altogether. It’s getting harder to hide what governments everywhere would rather people not realise: that life without children is freer, more peaceful, and more prosperous than family life.

Hilariously bad name for a podcast great podcast though

If women refuse to settle for mediocre, “something of average or moderate quality” then of course there will be less kids. The majority of people are mediocre.

Poor people are being horseified. My BiL builds the data centers that will replace him, horses helped build the highways….

There simply isn’t a place for poor people in the future, with enough automation they’ll be able to bring the population of the planet down 50% I think, just going to enjoy the time I have here.

Wish I wasn’t born a horse.

Absolutely delulu behavior

Feminism TLDR. Ignorant to think otherwise. It’s the major factor. Lack of men wanting to commit to chased women either. Repeal the 19th, re-promote the nuclear family and religion in schools. Radical Liberals have done immeasurable damage to this country. Tbh, I love watching these feminist cat ladies in misery tho 😊 women should never be in leadership/politic roles either. Bunch of hard uncomfortable truths to hear but it needs to be said.