Comments by "Eli Nope" (@elinope4745) on "The case for having kids | Wajahat Ali" video.

@Ananaspomidorka how many cell phones are sitting in dumps right now in the US? lets face it, older cell phones have even more rare earth metals than new ones. Time to start recycling.
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Who can survive on their own resources, I really couldn't agree with you more here. Global interdependence has become a scourge on the freedom and happiness of people.
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It used to be a single income family from a high school graduate could maintain a family of 4. I am sure that if that was the case now that the birthrate would have a dramatic rise.
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He needs to catch the authoritarians and the hidden dictators in that snap if he is going to make the world a place where it is moral to have children.
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@greggeverman5578 Absolutely not true. Over the last several decades more and more and more food gets sent to Africa to feed an evergrowing population. How many great things have you seen come from there? How many African innovations are in your home right now?
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@badvermin I don't think it was called Africa back then man.
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Racial factors that lead to promiscuity and poverty. People can accept physical differences in major phenotypes, but the second you mention behavioral phenotypes then you get called a racist. Just look at the "race" of the people in those poor and high fertility societies, I am sure you can find the correlation if you are honest with yourself.
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@icecoldtoddy9773 Oh, I definitely agree with you here.
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The Flaneur I have a feeling that would not be true if education included free daycare and lacked ideology and indoctrination that discouraged early motherhood. In effect education is simply acting as a hostile time filler and indoctrination against having children.
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