Comments by "buddermonger2000" (@buddermonger2000) on "KaiserBauch" channel.

Because culture is a nebulous thing and they'd have to admit their complicity.
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@badart3204 The problem is a larger cultural phenomenon prioritizing the self and the present instead of others and the future. Not to mention how having kids isn't always seen as good. And in fact I know plenty of instances where it can be seen as "low class" which makes it all the worse. It's why religiosity is so tied to fertility and how even secular Isrealis have a higher fertility than the average westerner. They know their place in the world and feel a duty to others and their future. The Jewish Nationalism is unironically part of their continued success. They have a founding myth and founding mission the entire population supports. That duty outside of you is what determines it.
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@НикитаТишкин-п1б Yeah it is because people used to work from dawn to dusk and people died from overwork (work took more calories than eaten). So yes. Because it's ultimately a mindset. "I need this amount to have kids" when it's most often the poor who have the most kids anyway. Everyone defaults to this. It's always wrong. It is never a factor besides when actual starvation is a problem. The only reason it matters even the slightest bit is because people's perceptions determine their willingness to have kids. So if they think that they'll be unable to afford them, instead of just not caring and making it work, they won't have them.
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he's old and French
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He's tackling it from only one angle and deliberately not discussing others as another said
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@Boababa-fn3mr Pop culture has reached far across borders and cultures, especially with the rise of the internet. Not to mention, industrialization does change culture. Not to mention how political development occurs anyway. For example even Iran is fairly westernized. It's thought of as deeply conservative due to leadership, but its fertility rate betrays the reality. Not to mention, secularism is a form of culture. You see the level of secularism and religiosity generally having an effect on fertility rates for that reason. Secularism comes with a culture all its own. Thus it spreads and kills the fertility rate.
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I've generally agreed with this statement, however southern Europe with that exact situation seems to have the lowest fertility rate.
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 @DistrustHumanz Joking because he almost always brings up Emmanuel Todd
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@JMM33RanMA In what way can it be contradicted or proven false by that concept? What about it creates a comtravening factor? If human progress is due to that broad spectrum, then why are some places more inclined to certain types of progress than others? What even is progress?
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@Asvnaro No, but it does mean much of their population has actually physical jobs unlike the less connected college educated classes
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@soumen_pradhan Very simple: for most of history, society was majority rural with i think the most urbanized society in prehistory getting to like 25% urban. The rest of history is roughly 10% urban for developed states. Thus, the effect, though present, was minimized. Today, society is majority urban. The US, is still roughly 63% urban despite its more rural tendencies, and much of the developed world is around 90%. Ultimately, this has led to the historic drop in fertility which has led to the fertility crisis we see today, which also now leads to the sex ratio imbalance.
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@thomgizziz Because you can do that far better than asking people. People tell you what they think on the surface. They don't think about the underlying factors underneath. If you really want to ask, and you really want to understand why outside of what he discusses, the only question you need to ask is "Is living here hell?" to much of the population in South Korea. Because frankly, yes, what you've said is true, but it speaks to something fundamental about attitudes in the region. Why people think something is a cultural factor. Though "Why am I living in hell?" is another one.
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I'd say that likely isn't the case given the US
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@blugaledoh2669 Half at best. They don't come from material conditions.
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@blugaledoh2669 No. That's the materialist worldview. It is not true. Ideation exists outside of that. It's why the Greeks or Romans didn't industrialize but Europe did. No framework for it.
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@JMM33RanMA No, they're legitimate questions exactly to understand your philosophy, but also somewhat rhetorical because they're fundamentally philosophical in nature. You say "progress" as a nebulous term and don't state its nature, thus indicating much closer to an appeal to a value system than point than a real statement of substance. The first paragraph of questions are the ones most important, as they're ultimately asking for an explanation as to your point. I don't see how an exogamous impulse would at all ameliorate the need for in-group vs. out-group collective identities for human society to function, especially since not all societies are, in fact, exogomous, and variety is only needed up to a certain point or unless a disease wipes out a population. These common identities are ultimately what bind people together, even down to the family unit. You rally around the highest collective identity under threat. If none are attacked, then it's very obviously a race to the bottom in terms of social atomization. In fact, this theory of external threats even explains the rise of transnational identities and the rise of social justice caring about causes like climate change, which are focused on global issues as that's what they view as a threat.
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@JMM33RanMA If what I've said is word salad, then you never earned yourself your position.
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@JMM33RanMA I asked you to explain why variety and exogomous character would ameliorate the phenomenon in the video about collective threat in social cohesion, and then to explain what you meant by progress. It seems you didn't read my response.
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@captainvanisher988 Incorrect. Seclurization is generally the effect, not the cause. Also cost and size of housing has in fact been shown to affect fertility, with Kaiser himself having done a video on it. Ultimately it's about the community surrounding it, and urbanization causes atomization.
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@Ammiragliosalvatorefortissimo This balances the hypergamic desire by making the pool of older and more established men less common. That's why I didn't mention it.
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Yes. However, it's a common question. The answer is also no. Rule of thumb: if a headline is asking a question, the answer is "no"
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Lol Nosense Z once again back with silly takes beyond what's factually present such as the increasing Hispanic majority.
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4:37 Yes this is exactly how i spend my free time. It doesn't help me at all but it's certainly interesting
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@luisa.acevedo3326 I'd say the biggest issue in Puerto Rico is simply the emigration as it comes primarily from their young population. Thus the Island is aging far faster than normal
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