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Tue Sep 29 10:07:25 UTC 2015 <HeySteve> of course, state has gotten into the parenting and schooling game in a big way, so things are distorted there
Tue Sep 29 10:06:57 UTC 2015 <HeySteve> also cultural differences in the emphasis placed on parenting and education
Tue Sep 29 10:06:25 UTC 2015 <HeySteve> and also developmental differences in the offspring
Tue Sep 29 10:06:15 UTC 2015 <HeySteve> well, there are physiological factors relating to ease of childbirth
Tue Sep 29 10:03:41 UTC 2015 <HeySteve> true, they're more about education
Tue Sep 29 10:03:28 UTC 2015 <HeySteve> well low birth rate is ok imo, it's when it falls below replacement level that ponzis like social security start going bust
Tue Sep 29 10:02:43 UTC 2015 <HeySteve> I think they only hit demographic problems around 2030 or so whereas EU, USA and Japan are already there
Tue Sep 29 10:01:39 UTC 2015 <HeySteve> erm, partially I'd say
Tue Sep 29 10:00:56 UTC 2015 <HeySteve> mircea_popescu, ok well what I mean is that birth rates are low or negative in developed countries
Tue Sep 29 10:00:02 UTC 2015 <HeySteve> hmm roxanna, I've heard that story somewhere. I think in an old Sean Connery movie...
Tue Sep 29 09:58:53 UTC 2015 <HeySteve> no idea, weren't they more about harems?
Tue Sep 29 09:58:21 UTC 2015 <HeySteve> but the ultimate result is Idiocracy world
Tue Sep 29 09:57:30 UTC 2015 <HeySteve> I guess you can bring in waves of immigrants too and hope they take out a load of home and car loans
Tue Sep 29 09:56:27 UTC 2015 <HeySteve> but this debases the "population supply" eventually
Tue Sep 29 09:56:12 UTC 2015 <HeySteve> so if middle-class aren't reproducing like they used to, subsidise reproduction of lower class
Tue Sep 29 09:55:33 UTC 2015 <HeySteve> well, debt-based system requires endless growth, of population and everything else
Tue Sep 29 09:53:58 UTC 2015 <HeySteve> they're*
Tue Sep 29 09:53:50 UTC 2015 <HeySteve> well, dominant ideology says there fungible
Tue Sep 29 09:52:39 UTC 2015 <HeySteve> it's population inflation
Tue Sep 29 09:50:27 UTC 2015 <HeySteve> it's related to what you said about gender roles, with no father to do quality control you get bad outcomes