Comments by "Kristopher Driver" (@paxdriver) on "The Modern Dating Catastrophe, Sex Recession u0026 Population Collapse - Louise Perry" video.

  1. If you're not willing to invest in affordable housing or address income disparity then why is declining population such a terrible thing? Are we so wired to anticipate war we want to encourage people who don't want to parent to be parents? Why is that the government's business and the tax payers' liability to encourage pregnancies? We used to also have living wages in the 70's straight out of highschool, and average tenure at a job was ten years. The real reason for chasing population growth is economics. Politicians want gdp lines to rise, but that's nonsense. If you have fewer population then a linear decline in economic output is perfectly natural. The richest gain more wealth by more renters and customers; that's the only reason to focus on fertility rates. To make a small number of rich people richer for the next generation is an asinine reason to be preoccupied with other people's life decisions. The irony is those same people peddling antidepressants and porn are part of that wealthy minority who benefit from maintaining demand to maintain revenues streams. Nothing to do with moral decay or nihilism, it's just not a fact that declining fertility is a bad thing unless it lasts a century or more. It's not a big deal. And discouraging sex before 6 months means people 4 months in who were very invested might be inclined to manipulate partners just for some satisfaction before breaking up, such is the motivation of sexual frustration as you rightly point out. Then there's the obvious issue of people not even knowing their partners' sexual compatibility until after having invested a ton of time and energy into a partner that can't satisfy, or doesn't want to satisfy. And then if they have kids soon after starting to couple some partners might lose interest and the frustration kicks in right when they thought they'd cleared the wait. There are so many reasons it's insane to believe everyone is so uniform we can possibly conjecture it makes sense to make presumptions of dire consequences for society, or what others would prefer if nudged by social convention, or that anyone would be better off just doing and living the way I like to live and do things. Where the acknowledgement of preference and variability and expression? How is that anything but fascist to have the government involved in the sex lives of citizens for the benefit of the nation at the cost of the citizen? That's literally what fascism means lol that's why it's considered a right wing opinion, because words have meaning.
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  2. If all of our anecdotes come from the loud people on social media, you have to seriously question your prejudices. Normal people don't scream about loving or hating kids. Normal people just have those thoughts and don't care who knows because they are personal and not really open for debate. Normal people don't even post on social media, the vast majority of users consume content and seldom post. Something like 80% of Twitter content is written by 10% of users who are bots and and loud mouths like me who chase a debate for the stimulation. How can a person make a career and spend all this energy on a subject based off of their impressions of society on anecdotes of disproportionate samples when data are so readily available? She keeps saying "statistically" but remains completely oblivious to correlations-causation analysis. As a data analyst it's a pet peeve when conjectures are presented as scientific when they're entirely and verifiably not that. For the record I've wanted a dozen children since I was a teenager. I love families and kids and have had to deal with girlfriends who didn't want kids in their 20's which I thought was so weird. But I listened to them, and I respect them as humans with personal preferences. They're not broken or selfish people, they're individuals. That's what it means to treat women as autonomous equals
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