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

Malcolm Collins is a pronatalist, Stanford MBA graduate, venture capitalist and an author.

What would the world actually look like if only the global population was only 500 million people? Given the current birth rate projections, we’re approaching a massive collapse. If you think a planet with too many people on it is bad, a planet with too few is even worse.

Expect to learn why Korea is projected to experience a 94% population extinction within the next century, why so few people actually want to have kids in 2023, why a ‘super virus’ has taken over the progressive movement, whether prosperity, equality, education and fertility are incompatible with each other, whether authoritarianism could fix this problem, if there’s a moral obligation to have children, the implications of using new technology for gene-editing & birthing via artificial wombs and much more...

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Timestamps:

(00:00) Intro (00:14) Why Malcolm is Always in the News (06:40) Our Divided Society’s Two Factions (17:09) How Prosperity & Gender Equality Impact Fertility (21:30) What is Causing the Decline in Dating? (29:38) Balancing Gender Equality with the Need for Mothers (38:14) What a World in Deep Population Decline Looks Like (44:39) Movements from Fertility Extremists (53:00) Is it a Moral Obligation to Have Children? (1:04:29) How to Change the Narrative on Motherhood (1:11:12) Malcolm’s Unique Experience of Having Children (1:25:23) Explaining IVG & IVF (1:29:52) Where to Find Malcolm

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