Comments by "Lepi Doptera" (@lepidoptera9337) on "Birthrates Are Plummeting Worldwide. Why?" video.

  1. Now we know why you don't have a girlfriend. ;-)
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  2. Just like I am paying for the schooling of other people's kids. The annual expenditure for a K-12 student is $17,000. That comes out of the taxation of my income, kid. :-)
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  3. Every time a guy rubs one out he is aborting 100 million babies. ;-)
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  4. Not really. We simply have the option to grow old all by ourselves. In that past that was a really poor choice. Today it's probably the best one that one can make.
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  5. We aren't vilifying parents. It is simply a fact that many parents are really, really bad parents.
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  6. Now we know why you don't have a girlfriend. ;-)
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  7. You aren't being taxed more than a married man with children. The average married man with children simply has to spend all of his money on his children. ;-)
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  8.  @buzoff4642  People who have more money will have fewer children. It's not a lack of welfare that is driving this. Quite the contrary. Children were necessary to survive in old age in the past. Today they are not.
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  9.  @buzoff4642  Empirical data from all over the world.
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  10.  @buzoff4642  Yes, education is certainly coupled to higher standards of living and lower birth rate. There are secondary phenomena, like "household workers", who are usually young women who are trading their lives for the support of their families. I believe there are approx. 10 million of those in Southeast Asia alone and I have seen the same phenomenon in Mexico. In China one can literally find hordes of uneducated young men and women from villages who are working in the cities as waiters and hotel employees and in factories as line workers. These people are also losing their fertile years to the rut of a capitalist society which thrives on the cheapest labor it can find. In other words, even the money of the rich reduces birth rates among the poor.
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  11. You could have made that argument at any time during human history. The answer in the past was simple: you needed children to take care of you after you passed forty. If you didn't have any then you were truly frelled unless you were rich.
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  12.  @penguinvic9892  Cue "Every Sperm is Sacred". It's my favorite "workout" song. ;-)
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